Maserati, Million Dollar House & Miserable
I had both of those in my life and I didn’t know that I was miserable yet. The world would make you feel like “you had arrived”. Especially in this social media world where everything is “me me me, look at me, look how fabulous my life is”
Oh how chasing the things of this world left me miserable! When Jesus made me alive I was truly able to see what a miserable existence I had been living. I found such joy unexplainable in His Presence, total satisfaction of soul. All the material things in the world didn’t matter anymore, I was building my Babylonian towers to the sky and I didn’t even know. It is not that God doesn’t want His children to have nice luxurious things, it is the motive behind getting these things. The world makes it seem like once you attain a certain level of financial wealth and “things” you’ll finally have peace, freedom and be happy. Oh such deception! We don’t have to look far, if wealth brought this why do we have all these millionaire celebrities killing l themselves, if fame brought this why do the most famous and most ‘worshipped’ still commit suicide? Why are all these celebrities all over twitter arguing and cussing people out? With more money comes only more worldly creative destructive ways to try to satisfy that huge void in every human’s heart. Drugs, alcohol, sex. Everywhere you turn there is a new drug out there. This is because people try one drug and keep chasing for that temporary feeling of ‘bliss’. Meanwhile true bliss can only be found in Jesus! In no one else and nothing else is this found. The more I got to know Jesus’s love for me, the more I realized in how much misery I was living in the world. I was so aware of my sinful ways in comparison to such a Holy God.
Dear folks, marriage won’t finally make you happy, having kids won’t finally make you happy, being financially free will still definitely not bring you peace or happiness. The evil one uses the deception of wealth to drive people to more misery. Ecclesiastes 5:10-14 NIV “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them.” After you have worked so hard to attain all this material wealth you are still crying into your pillow, your loved ones are still dying, you are still getting cancer, you can’t have lasting joy. Let the striving stop! If Jesus isn’t your goal, if He isn’t Lord over your life you will continue to strive endlessly. In His presence and love I am finally at complete peace. I found ultimate rest in His loving arms. He allowed me to get to the end of my rope and let go and He has been teaching me how to truly Let God. Matthew 11:28-30 “28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” I can’t do anything outside of Him. Every desire, every ambition I had has been perfected in the Son of God. He showed me what true love was. What real love was. If you haven’t experienced the Holy perfect love of Jesus you have no idea what love is. What the world calls love is actually mostly lust, especially in this over sexualized society we live in now. Jesus’s love is indescribable and can only be attempted to be described in 1 Corinthians 4-7 “4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
God’s love is deeper than any ocean, wider than the sky, higher than the heavens. It never reaches its end and it never fails. Every day He pulls me in deeper in His love. I’ve felt so much love I could just explode with joy ahhh!! The purest, deepest, most trustworthy and peaceful kind of love. My prayer is that dear reader May our gracious God open the eyes of your heart, may Jesus open your blind eyes if you haven’t already experienced this new birth that is the most beautiful gift from our God. I pray that you May experience the perfect love of our Savior Jesus.
Joy runs wild in my life now, joy in the midst of life’s chaos, battles and trials. Joy that will leave the world baffled how that can be in my current painful life circumstances?!! The answer is only Jesus! Nehemiah 8:10 “And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” All my life I have been searching for love in all the wrong places and wrong people; thinking that I would find my Prince Charming in this world and live happily ever after. Oh how I got my heart shattered to pieces. However, Jesus found me, called me out of the grave, embraced me, mended by broken heart, showered His healing love on me and now I have the full assurance of soul that I will live with my king happily forever after this world passes away. Disney could never!!! #Heavenawaits🥰🙏🏾
Thank You Lord for everything. I am free and bouncing on clouds!!! “Who the Son sets free is free indeed!!! John 8:36 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
Glory be to God forever and always!!! Praise Jesus!!!
