What have I done lord Jesus to deserve your endless love
What have I done lord Jesus to be worthy of your grace
What have I done lord Jesus to be standing here with you
What have I done lord Jesus to be worthy of you

For I am nothing yet You love me
I am no one yet you care
You thought of me when you died
What have I done to deserve this love

And I lay down my will
To do yours until
My life I give hence forth to live for you alone

For i am nothing yet you love me
I am no one yet you care
you thought of me when you died what have i done to deserve this love

What have I done lord Jesus to deserve your endless love
What have I done lord Jesus to be worthy of your grace
What have I done lord Jesus to be standing here with you
What have I done lord Jesus to be worthy of you

Childlike acceptance can melt the hardest of hearts.

Acceptance is loving others as they are, regardless of the sin in which they’re involved.

ACCEPTING LOVE

God loves people, not programs or good causes. He died for people, not for the cause of world evangelism.

By loving us, even in our rebellion against Him, God demonstrated His acceptance of us. It is accepting love which gives us the motivation and strength to repent of our selfish ways and return to Him. And it is accepting love that reassures us that He cares and understands when we fail.

TRUSTING LOVE

Through us He has chosen to communicate His kindness, mercy, hope, and forgiveness. We, in essence, become God’s way of saying, “I love you” to a hurt and dying world. This is a task that will keep each of us occupied for a lifetime.

How amazing that God, the Creator of the universe, has chosen to trust us with the message of His salvation.

Trust – that is what we all need.

Trusting love has the power to make people believe in themselves. It releases our true potential and turns us from discouraged failures to those who aspire to great things. It creates an atmosphere which releases creativity and stimulates the imagination. Trust motivates us to work harder than nay program or set of rules could. True trust brings freedoom striving to gain acceptance, since acceptance has already been received. It produces gratefulness toward those who believe in us and wins the loyalty of hearts for a lifetime.

Trust is the key that can unlock a person’s full potential.

THE POWER OF HEALING LOVE

Sin, whether our own or another’s, can scar the emotions. But God’s healing love is able to renew and restore our distorted memories and battered emotions in such a way that we no longer have to suppress our feelings of failure or carry them with us through life. God can forgive us and completely rebuild our emotions.

We all, at some point, need to experience the healing balm of God’s love. Throughout life people hurt us, through thoughtless comments, rejection of our work or ideas, and other ways that leave their mark on our emotions. But we are not left to ourselves, with no hope. God steps into each individual situation with His healing power and gives a fresh start.

HE is the great Creator and Re-Creator. He creates new beginnings for us. He draws a line behind us and forgives everything in the past. He heals the wounds we have accumulated along the way and starts us on a new path.

God’s love gives hope to a despairing nation, brings embittered enemies together, restores alienated friends, unites divided churches, renews backslidden Christians, and gives us all a reason to live.

God’s love can conquer the heart of the hardest criminal, change the lifestyle of a selfish pleasure seeker, set free the most ardent terrorist, and heal the wounds of an abused child. God’s love is the power that can make the difference.

This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ~1 John 4:9-10

 I am now coming face to face with the hardest thing one must do but I trust that He will be there to grant me the strength that I will be needing to do what He needs me to do.

Take my heart and mold it, O God…until it becomes one that would only be after You and You alone.

What we wait for…is far less important than what God is doing while we wait. In such times He works in us to develop those hard-to-achieve spiritual virtues of meekness, kindness, and patience with others. But more important, we learn to lean on God alone and to “rejoice and be glad” in Him (Psalm 70:4).

F.B. Meyer saud, “What a chapter might be written of God’s delays! It is the mystery of the art of educating human spirits to the finest temper of which they are capable. What searchings of heart, what analyzings of motives, what testings of the Word of God, what upliftings of soul…All these are associated with those weary days of waiting, which are, nevertheless, big with spiritual destiny.”

~Our Daily Bread, Nov. 7, 2009

I am the true vine, and my Father the vinedresser. Every branch of mine that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does not bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ~John 15: 1-5

Today, God gave me a brand new understanding of this verse. Once again, I am reminded to never confuse activity with productivity and that too much activity can result to you pleasing people instead of pleasing Him. Then again, God gave me the assurance that no matter what happens, I can always count on Him. No matter how painful the pruning process is, and even when He decides to uproot me from where I am right now, I will always end up a better person, a better daughter, a better Christian. I can never be better than the others. I can never be perfect. But even then, I know that by simply choosing to always abide in the One True Vine, I can do all things.

I am currently in the process of reconnecting with Him. I am trying to find that which I have lost. And I’m glad God has allowed me to meet people who, in their own little ways, have encouraged me to move forward, to never let guilt overtake me, and to always look to Christ no matter what happens.

I’m still running the race. I’m taking a different track, but I’m still running, trusting that even when I’d be the last person who’ll reach the finish line, He’ll still be there, with His arms open wide. And He will hug me and tell me that it is not about how fast I ran but how far I’ve gone.

1. God can make great things even in darkness.

2. He is working even though you cannot see Him.

3. Trusting Him during dark times lets you exercise your gift of faith.

Wait and in waiting, listen for His leading;
Be strong, thy strength for every day is stored.
Go forth in faith, and let thine heart take courage;
There is no disappointment with the Lord.

The writer’s block can be quite hard to bear with – especially when you have deadlines to meet and a whole lot of articles and write-ups to do. Well, I recently have found something that could, in one way or another, get the creative juices up and running again (this would be aside from coming up with a short entry for this blog).

It’s one of the many link-building strategies but I have found it to be one effective breather. Yahoo Answers is now becoming my frequent refuge whenever I feel like I cannot write about gum disease and online search engines no longer. Questions there are so varied, you could actually choose what to write about. At least every once in a while, I can already write about what interests me. Getting your answers acknowledged being the best among all the others adds up to the fun. And you get to earn points too!

In one way or another, that is working and having fun at the same time!