Song of Songs 4:7

"All beautiful you are, my darling; there is no flaw in you."

amazing family.

jesus,

use me.

blessed are the poor. blessed are the weak. blessed are the ones who can barely speak. blessed in your hurt. blessed in your pain. blessed when your teardrops are falling down like rain. blessed you're broken. blessed when you're blind. blessed when you're fragile when you have lost your mind. blessed when you're desperate. blessed when you're scared. blessed when you're lonely. blessed when you've failed. blessed when you're beat up. blessed when you're bruised. blessed you're torn down. blessed when you're used. blessed when you're heartbroke. blessed when you're fired. blessed when you're choked up. blessed when you're tired. blessed when the plans that you so carefully laid, end up in the junkyard with all the trash you made. blessed when you feel like giving up the ghost. blessed when your loved ones are the ones who hurt you most. blessed when you lose your own identity. then blessed when you find it and it has been redeemed.  blessed when you see what your friends will never be. blessed with your eyes closed. Then blessed you see me. blessed when you're hungry. blessed when you thirst. cause thats when you will eat of the bread that matters most. blessed when you're put down. because of me you're dissed. because of my you're kicked out. they take you off their list.

These are words to build a life on.

These are yours word. How can they be mine?

These are words to build a life on.

These are yours word. I want them to be mine.

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.  ~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

God's word is personal address, inviting, commanding, challenging, rebuking, comforting, directing- but not forcing.

I want to be familiar with the way God speaks through his word, so I will know in which ways to answer him with my life.

"Come now, let us reason together,"

       says the Lord.

"Though your sins are like scarlet,

      they shall be white as snow;

 though they are red as crimson,

     they shall be like wool."

Isaiah 1:18