Tears

You yourself have recorded my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Then my enemies will retreat on the day when I call. This I know: God is for me. Psalm 56:8-9 

I remember a time when my tears must have overflowed God’s tear bottle. Lisa Harper says, “Grief is not the opposite of hope but rather the proof of it.” That's exactly what I felt. The grief I felt was strangely full of hope, a knowing that God would turn my sadness into joy, my brokenness into the wholeness. I knew that what had been stripped away would be restored…God’s way 🙌🙌. Why? Because He promised in His Word in Joel 2:25. And I have found Him to be the Keeper of Promises. I can take my real, raw, honest emotions to Him for He gives beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, a spirit of praise for heaviness. That's his promise in Isaiah 61:3. He did it for me, and He will do it for you. 

Man, I’m thankful to be God’s girl. I hope you know you're His too ❤️