Everything To Me
Let’s face it, life can be just plain hard sometimes. We face seemingly impossible situations, often one right after the other and we find ourselves looking up to God and crying out, “Where are you?” At that moment we feel so alone and long for those times when it seemed the sweet breath of God was right in front of our face. I know I have been there and it’s a tough place to come out of.
When I was in the worst of my battle with cancer and the enemy side swiped me from out of the blue with the worst emotional attack I could ever imagine, I will be honest with you and admit that I spent some time on the floor sobbing to God and gasping for my next breath. I was hurting – badly.
The first thing I want to say about that- because I know you have been there too- is that there is nothing wrong with it. You are not weak or faithless. We are human beings with a spirit and a soul. There have been days when my spirit may have been wise and knew what to do but my soul (mind, will, and emotions) was so devastated that I needed the recovery time. I needed the healing and purging effect of tears. If tears were a sign of weakness or lack of faith then why would God save them all in His bottle (Psalm 56:8)? Our loving heavenly Father cares very much about what hurts us and has a plan for the restoration of our souls.
On the particular occasion mentioned above, when I had done my crying and got my breath back my spirit kicked in and I got back up. This is the part where I clung to God, moment by moment, and just kept putting one foot in front of the other. This is the season where I dove into His word to find out exactly what I meant to Him. He promises that He will never leave us or forsake us and will never take His love from us.
Don’t be obsessed with money but live content with what you have, for you always have God’s presence. For hasn’t he promised you, “I will never leave you, never! And I will not loosen my grip on your life!” Hebrews 13:5 TPT
So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love.
There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! Romans 8: 38,39 TPT
God respects and will respond to the kind of faith that says, “I know that I mean everything to you. I know you love me more than I can imagine and you only have good plans for me (Jeremiah 29:11)”. He loves it when we know that about His character. I love the phrase that The Passion Translation uses over and over, “His wraparound presence”. To me, this speaks of his love being with me always, enveloping me like a blanket.
Friends, there is no one God loves more than you. He knew you before he ever formed you and had a plan for your life. He saves your tears and keeps track of the very hairs of your head. You can confidently say it about Him as much as he says it about you—You are everything to me.