Patching our lives together

I have come to realize that the only true happiness we can ever achieve is with God. He allows good and bad to cross our paths and also gives us enough slack in the line to choose the way we handle the things that are set before us. Something I heard yesterday hit pretty close to home...God can't do work for us unless He lives in us. Cliche I know, but think about it...how is He supposed to be in all aspects of our lives if we don't let Him. I know each of us has our Christian lives with our church home or our family, but some of us have another life that we sometimes forget to have God be apart of or pretend He just can't see it. Hard for most of us to admit, but it is the truth. If even more truth be told and we had to write out the pros and cons of each realm of our life the one without God's presence would be the obvious loser. Why? Because He is the light. He fills that empty hole in our soul that we have tried to fill with everything else in the world. He brings us comfort in times of need and quenches our thirst when we are thirsty. Don't you feel a bit dehydrated when you don't have God? Dehydrated meaning that our spirit is dry and needs to be fed and we become very thirsty for His love, wisdom, and peace. The problem is that most of us are too ashamed after a night out without our savior's armor to come pride less to Him and ask to be forgiven. For some reason we have a hard time spending time with God when we have done something bad. To be frank that is Lucifer. He is so sneaky that he knits this blanket of demise, shame, and guilt and wraps us up so carefully and snug in it that we don't even want to come out and speak to our Lord. So here comes this extravagant mess that just spirals more out of control because we try and clean it up. The Lord wants to help, we just have to ask Him. He can't do work in us if we do not submit to Him. He needs to be in all aspects of our lives. Let God in and let Him do the cleaning up. Seek Him and you shall receive. Spend time with Him and you shall gain. Surrender to Him and you shall be free. Serve Him and you shall have so much joy. What a loving, devoted, understanding, compassionate God we have. Let's strive everyday to be more like Him and never let Him out of our reach.

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.-Matthew 11:28

For the LORD your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory. -Deuteronomy 20:4

Lord help me to reach out my hand and invite you in to all parts of my life. Help me to wake up everyday and strive to make it a perfect day for you, and help me to remember that I can not do this alone... I need you.