Sixty Minutes

Sixty minutes. That's all it took for Him to pick me up out of what I thought I was and to set me down in what He always knew I was meant to be.

For so long I looked fine on the outside, but inside was turmoil, a deep sense of failure and a sorrow that grew out of lack of meaningful purpose.

Then He showed up...

I went downstairs the old, and came upstairs the new.

Experiencing the Love of God for the first time made me aware of things I never comprehended.

I was shown what true love is..

True. Pure. Forgiving. Grace. Mercy. Permanence. Perfect.

That is who I met in Him.

He brings a steady joy. A deep peace. A happiness I no longer have to fake.

A real, living, active relationship with God.

No more striving. He meets every need. I just pursue Him, keeping my attention on His purpose and my eyes on Heaven, now and in all my days ahead.

Abiding in Him....

I see now why surrender to an unseen God is so hard for most of us. Letting go of the life we think we're holding together with our own two hands... that's the stumbling point. We don't realize we're clinging to something that was never strong enough to carry us in the first place...it is all so temporary and fleeting.

God is both seeable and knowable. Eternal perspective unfolds in relationship with Him.

God has become the greatest adventure of my life.

"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17

"In thy presence is fulness of joy, at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." Psalm 16:11