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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Loyal love

Lamentations 3:21-31 The Message

God's loyal love couldn't have run out,
His merciful love couldn't have dried up.
They're created new every morning.
How great your faithfulness!
I'm sticking with GOD (I say it over and over).
He's all I've got left.
God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits,
To the woman who diligently seeks.
It's a good thing when you're young
To stick it out through the hard times.
When life is heavy and hard to take,
Go off by yourself. Enter the silence.
Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions:
Wait for hope to appear.
Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face.
The "worst" is never the worst.
Why? Because the Master won't ever
Walk out and fail to return.
If He works severely, He also works tenderly.
His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.
He takes no pleasure in making life hard,
In throwing roadblocks in the way.

Loyal love. I like that. It makes me think of princes and princesses, loyal knights, castles, and far away lands of Happily Ever Afters. What girl doesn't dream of those things. I know I have and my girls do even in their young hearts. Selah and Abby comment nearly every day about being a princess. What I tend to forget in my busy days of mommyhood, is that I am a Princess, the daughter of the King of all Kings. No, I am not yet dwelling in the castles of my Father or skipping through the meadows of His Kingdom, I am on a journey and this journey is hard...not at all what I thought it would be. But just because I haven't gotten "my" way doesn't mean God isn't faithful. No, when I get my tiara stuck in the mud of regret and my gown smeared with jealousy God, my Father King, is faithful.  He is faithful to forgive me, faithful to teach me, faithful and guide me, faithful in His loyal love for me.

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