2 Kings 25:27-30In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the year Evil-Merodach became king of Babylon, he released Jehoiachin from prison on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month. He spoke kindly to him and gave him a seat of honor higher than those of the other kings who were with him in Babylon. So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king's table. Day by day the king gave Jehoiachin a regular allowance as long as he lived.
-Letting go
-God has already released us from our chains and old prison
-He has released us from our past and our sins, separating them from us.
-It is up to us to put aside, our past, our prison wear, and sit and eat with him everyday.
-We cannot just be released from sins and our past to move on, we must also let go, set aside what we carry from those mistakes. You cannot move onto a blessed future or present even when you still have shackles of old sons keeping you back. We have the key to let it go and move forward. With God we have the power to make Satan let go of his hold. With God, we can do great things. God is always With Us. He takes our past, once its let go, and using us turns it into something beautiful. Like a rose coming out of ashes. Without him, its not seen. But he is With Us so all is possible.
We will let go and see his promises when we trust. Some days or nights may be hard. Even the most hopeful feel like there will never be a surrender, but with God, when trusting God, there will be. It may, will, take a while. We go through more pain, more surrender, learning to trust more with each day. Sunday to Sunday we may not see it, but maybe in a month or two or after the end of a season.
Summer may have held hate, left you wanting revenge, but fall contained the beginning of surrender as leaves fell and winds shifted. Winter is close and you feel not a coldness but newness in the crisp cold change. A year ago you were someone different, wrapped in sin, confused and afraid, but child look at what you've done! Maybe your eyes did not see the demons you fought but you saw them in your mind, heard their tauntings and knew this was not just any nightmare. Your peer(s) saw the struggle within your eyes and supported you, even if you could not see it yourself. You were never alone in this. Even if its nights you become angry at me, wanting another to be close, you are never alone. I've always been with you, inside you. Had control over your heart AND mind since you were born. I gave them to you to give back to me. I do not love you less because you choose others first at times, but more because you choose me more than the first time you knew I was here. I love you more because you are blessed, chosen, beloved, because you are mine and I created you. Yes, I knew that you would stumble and fall, at times picking a downward ground than reaching for me in the stars. I do not, and will never, love you less for this. But I love you more with each day and each moment for finding your way back to me and choosing me.
Child, anyone can walk a path and find me. I am everywhere in everything, even the worst things, it is the fact that you choose yourself to love me, to put me above all else. And see what has come out of it? the more growing and numerous times of laughter, happiness and joy. I give you peace when life is tressed and stretched. Give you a promise to deliver you from anything and everything. And let it show, my promises never break. But again, I am your Lord, Savior, Father God and shall never forsake, leave, or break your heart. In my hands it has remained intact and whole, overflowing with love and blessings and things you may never see.
So trust me and give me at the smallest a chance, esp in times where you fell it won't work. Let me work in you by not only asking me to but making the way for you to. So let go of the broken pieces and the old journals and memories. Don't look back but forward to this life you dreamt of. Don't look back and one day you'll see you have your whole self, which I hope you give to me so that you can keep it whole. For you may feel troubled with loss and pain, forgetfulness and loneliness, but see again how you are full of hope and smiles, of encouragement and helpfulness. You are not burdened by anything but carrying gifts so great for all to see.
Oh my child, my beloved thing, you are forever mine.
O'Child-Nevertheless
I want to come closer, but you are so distant.
Lately your thoughts are so far.
I want to show you all that you're missing,
and I'll meet you right where you are.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine.
O' Love, I'm only asking you for your life.
Say that you need me. I know what you're feeling.
and You cannot do this alone. I gave you my Word,
and I gave you my life so you'll never be on your own.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine.
O' Love, I'm only asking you for your life.
You're waiting for this life to be what you wanted
(Is this what you wanted?)
You're waiting for this life to be what you needed.
(Is this what you needed?)
You're waiting for this life.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine
I want to come closer, but you are so distant.
Lately your thoughts are so far.
I want to show you all that you're missing,
and I'll meet you right where you are.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine.
O' Love, I'm only asking you for your life.
Say that you need me. I know what you're feeling.
and You cannot do this alone. I gave you my Word,
and I gave you my life so you'll never be on your own.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine.
O' Love, I'm only asking you for your life.
You're waiting for this life to be what you wanted
(Is this what you wanted?)
You're waiting for this life to be what you needed.
(Is this what you needed?)
You're waiting for this life.
O' Love, I've always known you, and,
O' Love, you've always been mine
O'Child, I'm only asking you for your life
