Today's Bible Promise
Today's Promise from the Bible
Psalm 126:6
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].
Reflection
Our Father is so faithful to lift us up from our grievous trials and temptations! He stretches His hands before us and makes all things new and beautiful in His light. Though weeping may last for a night, there is always a shout of joy in the morning for those who trust in the Lord.
A mini-version of my testimony:
I grew up going to church sporadically, was saved and baptized at 17, and for some reason...I immediately began to rebel against God and everything I knew. For the next many years of my life I was a very miserable sinner (too many to mention), but God brought me to a place at the end of 1999 where I lost EVERYTHING in life...my job, the love of my life (not by death but by betrayal), my family, my home (was going into foreclosure), my reputation, and pretty much everything else....I sank into a deep depression and even made a feeble suicide attempt. I certainly did not want to live any longer. My meager savings were running out...and I just sat in my house and stared at the ceiling wallowing in self-pity most days.
One day I was watching tv and hit on a Christian station and started watching. I watched for several days in a row and one day I flung myself face first down on the floor and repented of every sin I could remember and even the ones I couldn't remember. That is the closest I have ever felt to God and I don't have words to describe the feeling nor the experience. I asked for Him to forgive me and He did. In just a few short weeks, I was able to go out and look for temp work and eventually from that found a really good job and one by one, I won back the things that mattered most to me (primarily my kids and family).
I have tried ever since that day to live a godly Christian life. I don't always succeed, but when I fall, I know "who" to repent to and strive not to make the same mistakes again.
God kept laying this verse on my heart after my "conversion" and it means so much to me:
Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
It is important to read the verses before that one and to read the warning that comes after it. I hope that some that read this will seek them out.
http://www.blueletterbible.org/index.cfmGod Bless!