Today I am joining my friends and Lisa-Jo again for Five Minute Friday. If you’re new here (welcome!) the rules are simple: Write, don’t edit, link your post to her page, and then share the encouragement like wildfire. You can do that, I know you can. The prompt this week is: After
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I thought it would happen after I graduated high school. But it didn't.
I thought I would feel different afterI said, "I Do !!". But I didn't
Then I pictured it to all change after I had children. Yes, things changed but not as I pictured them to.
Each time I thought after this event or after that change the void in my life would be filled and I would finally feel satisfied. That I would finally feel complete but it didn't happen.
At least not until after one especially stressful week in Aug of 2000.
I end the week running into church late for the evening service. I have to be honest, my mind really was not there and I am not sure my heart was either. I was just going through the motions. Once settled in my normal pew I noticed there was something different in the church. The service began with the youth preforming a drama to the song "Arise My Love".
If you don't know the song there is a verse where Jesus is in the cross and God turns His back because He could not look on the sin Jesus was carrying. My sin. As a real 'daddy's girl' the thought of a daddy turning his back on his child for someone else just broke my heart in a way I have never been broken before. After that night I found the peace, love and satisfaction I have been seeking. What could not have been found in another human or another thing was finally found after I turn my life over to Christ on that night.
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I know my time is up but I can't leave this post without offering you the same gift I recieved that night. If you are trying to fill an unexplained void you feel let me tell you that Christ is the only one that can fill that space for you. If you want to know more please contact me at amypboyd@bellsouth.net and I will be happy to share with you.
Hi Amy, I'm the link after yours which means, your link is before mine. Nice to meet you.
ReplyDeleteI love your post. Wow. It really made me think! You chose an excellent thought to post about "after". We are indeed blessed by what happens at the cross and after we see our sin and commit to the Lord. He blesses us in ways we can't imagine. Your post blessed me, I pray it blesses and draws others to the Lord and/or in a deeper relationship with Him.
Thanks! Jenn
Jenn - So nice to meet you too. I am so honored that my words blessed you and join you in prayer that others are drawn closer to the Lord
DeleteHi Amy! That's the most important After of all, isn't it? Great post!
ReplyDeleteWithout the after of meeting Christ personally there really is any fulfillment. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteAwesome post!
ReplyDeleteThank you for stopping by Living in Harmony.
DeleteSo true! There's all this expectation that life will be so different, but in reality you're still the real you. Nothing changes unless you open yourself up to it. Great writing!
ReplyDeleteYes, God is really the only one that can change us. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteLove this powerful story, friend. Praise God for how He works in hearts and lives...so blessed by you and your heart! Thank you for sharing! :)
ReplyDeleteMel, I always love when you come by and visit, You never fail to encourage me.
DeleteThis is very powerful! I am glad you finally found what you were always looking for!
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed. Thanks for stopping by.
DeleteWhat a powerful testimony! Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting
DeleteHi there! I tried to comment on the weekend but for some reason it didn't work.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I don't know what I think about this. I've grown up in church. I know that Jesus is supposed to be the "answer", but my experience doesn't bear that out.
I appreciate your post.
So many times we do look to life's circumstances and think, this will be it. This will be the thing that makes me full, fills me up, gives me meaning and satisfaction and we may even feel satisfied for a bit. But that void is always there until God fills it. And He needs to continue to fill that as we seek Him out because we're so prone to wander and look to meet our needs elsewhere. Thanks for sharing this moment of after.
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