I love the latest song that is playing by Robbie Seay, Song of Hope. I've been finding myself randomly singing it ever since I first started hearing it on KSBJ. Part of the lyrics really stood out to me today when I heard it, and I couldn't help but reflect on the beauty of contentment. The lines that say "Just to know that You are near is enough" and "just to know You and be loved is enough"are the ones I'm speaking about. More and more each day I am learning to find contentment in just knowing that God is near, and that He is radically and passionately in love with me. It isn't always an easy thing to remember in a culture that is always longing for more. While we must have vision and dreams ("Where there is no vision the people perish" Prov. 29:18), we must also learn to appreciate the things that are right in front of us. When things are uncomfortable or get tough the tendency is to want to rush through them or find a way out. Although it is often in those times that God is trying to mold and to fashion us to even more of His likeness. The scriptures says that God longs for us to be complete, lacking in nothing. In order to reach true completeness we must first realize that there is nothing greater than truly knowing God and realizing that every good and perfect thing comes from Him.
"I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith."
Philippians 3:7-9
As a woman who has had her share of losses in life, without a doubt I can say that all I have gained in Christ and knowing Him is far greater. So, I choose to live with hope knowing that my God is near, and that to know Him and His love is by far enough!
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