Words and pictures

They say a picture paints a thousand words, but sometimes our vision is blurry, and we miss the heart in the picture. I have walked many paths in this life and none of them perfect and I have made many mistakes, and they were all my choices. It is when we find ourselves on the mountain looking down into the valley that we forget how deep and how difficult the valley was. We forget the blood that saved us when we were lost and we neglect the very things that brought us to the top of the mountain.

We become ignorant to the little things as we desire only the bigger more visible things. A broken heart can be healed but a broken spirit takes resurrection power to be restored. Now we look into a mirror that is vague and distorted, and we look and see not what is before us, but what is behind us. It is a fallen mentality that drives us into despair and hurt, and loss becomes the very altars we build.

We look but we do not see. We seem fine yet we are sad, we smile yet there is pain in our expression. We carry scars but the world cannot see them. We hurt yet we do not show it.  We get up, we carry on but we do not know how far we will go before the wheels come off and the end of our rope is all we have in our hands. Life is a mere moment in comparison to what awaits us in eternity. Yes, we may face impossible odds, are they impossible.

Maybe from a worldly human perspective, but looking from a resurrection perspective,  I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Jesus is alive and the same power that rose Him from death is in us. This world will fill your head with lies and deceit, but the Word of God is truth and in it we find all the answers we need to overcome anything.

The enemy may think he is winning but Jesus said, “I am the resurrection and the life” and He has defeated everything for us on that cross. It is done, so let it be done. Stop looking for the living among the dead, our God is alive and in Him is life and life in abundance. You can do anything through Christ who strengthens you so prophesy over the dead areas and speak life over everything.

Believe it and live it.