NOVEMBER 11, 2018

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

LAMENTATIONS 3-5

14The elders are gone from the city gate;

the young men have stopped their music.

15Joy is gone from our hearts;

our dancing has turned to mourning.

16The crown has fallen from our head.

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

17Because of this our hearts are faint,

because of these things our eyes grow dim(5:14-17) 

HEBREWS 8

I will put my laws in their minds

and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

11No longer will they teach their neighbor,

or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’

because they will all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest.

12For I will forgive their wickedness

and will remember their sins no more.”^c

JOURNAL 

God desires to restore and be our God. We are created to know him. When we know him we are redeemed. Joy is restored to us. We know longer exist just to exist, our eyes are filled with the power of the creator of the universe. The energy radiating from us is the same energy that created the world and that raised Jesus from death. 

This is the answer to everything I am searching for in my life. It is greater than all the wealth of the world. It is greater than any honor or earthly relationship. This is why we are called to surrender our lives...because until I surrender I do not have room for God. For God does not desire part of my heart...he desires it all because he cannot contain part of my life, he must have it all. 

31“Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

LUKE 14:31-33