WHAT IF God Was There the Whole Time?

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WHAT IF God Was There the Whole Time?

He was!

Yes, we know that, but when we are hurting or are trying to move on from past rejections and past “abuse,” (no matter big or small, we may feel that we were all alone in that terrible time.

Well recently, I was going through actually feeling the emotional hurt of some of those past things. They had stayed locked up inside, because I learned to stuff emotions (especially what we term “negative emotions”) and stoically move on … oftentimes, thinking that was the spiritual thing to do.

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"Removing our Masks" in this Pandemic . . . Pressing into Psalm 139

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"Removing our Masks" in this Pandemic . . . Pressing into Psalm 139

“Masks or no masks” has become a big controversial deal these days. But there are masks that have been a bigger deal than we have realized all along in most of our lives. They are the metaphorical “masks” that we humans tend to don, to hide who we really are from others….

But I have been thinking now of “masks” of a different sort… these "good “masks” can also tend to keep others from discovering the real me deep down inside. They are the masks of the “roles” I rightfully have in life. We are most often seen by others in our roles and maybe in no other way….

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Your All-encompassing God has you!

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ps 139
ps 139

A prayerful declaration for your Today, dear friend!  The Almighty Triune God of the Universe has you...you are cocooned in Him through our Lord & King Jesus Christ! God to enfold me,God to surround me,God in my speaking,God in my thinking.

God in my sleeping,God in my waking,God in my watching,God in my hoping.

God in my life,God in my lips,God in my soul,God in my heart.

God in my suffering,God in my slumber,God in mine ever-living soul,God in mine eternity.

-Ancient Celtic Christian Prayer

Repeat it again changing God to Christ, then to the Holy Spirit, then to Love, because the God who is Love loves you tenderly and with the utmost affection...even smiling upon you...today, right now!

So today you can live from that union with the Living, Loving God in Christ.

psalm 139
psalm 139

Spend some time in Psalm139 today and enjoy His abiding presence by resting in this song:

​Nothing is Beyond You

Where could I go, where could I runEven if I found the strength to flyAnd if I rose on the wings of the dawnAnd crashed through the corner of the sky

If I sailed past the edge of the seaEven if I made my bed in HellStill there You would find me

'Cause nothing is beyond YouYou stand beyond the reachOf our vain imaginationsOur misguided piety

The heavens stretch to hold YouAnd deep cries out to deepSaying that nothing is beyond YouNothing is beyond You

Time cannot contain YouYou fill eternitySin can never stain YouDeath has lost its sting

And I cannot explain the way You came to love meExcept to say that nothing is beyond YouNothing is beyond You

If I should shrink back from the lightSo I can sink into the darkIf I take cover and I close my eyesEven then You would see my heart

And You'd cut through all my pain and rageThe darkness is not dark to YouAnd night's as bright as day

Nothing is beyond YouYou stand beyond the reachOf our vain imaginationsOur misguided piety

The heavens stretch to hold YouAnd deep cries out to deepSaying that nothing is beyond YouNothing is beyond You

And time cannot contain YouYou fill eternitySin can never stain YouAnd death has lost its sting

And I cannot explain the way You came to love meExcept to say that nothing is beyond YouNothing is beyond YouNothing is beyond You

Songwriters RICH MULLINS, MITCH MCVICKER, TOM BOOTH