You Make ALL Things Work Together For MY Good

I really want this blog to be a place where God is glorified, so today I was praying and asking God what it was he wanted me to share...here it is!

I am a sing in the shower kind of girl. For as long as I can remember I have always woken up in the morning with a song in my head. Sometimes it's a kids song, worship song, pop song, old song...but always a song. David sometimes asks me, "What song are you playing this morning?"

I've been listening to Your Love Never Fails over and over this week. I just can't get it out of my spirit...it has been my song for several days. But I'm not just singing it in the morning, it is all day long! If you have never heard it you should go to itunes right now and buy it!

God has been using that song to remind me over and over what he has done in my life. There is a line that says "The chasm was far to wide, I never thought I'd reach the other side, but your love never fails!" There are several times in my life when I have thought I would never get to "the other side" and EVERY time God has gotten me there.

Then of course there is the line that blows my mind every time I say it, "You make all things work together for my good!" I just can't explain the emotions I have when I say those words! When I look back on the things that happened in my life from the time I was a child up until now, and see how God has used EVERY instance for MY good all I can do is praise Him. When I sing the words, I feel like I am going to explode with JOY, THANKFULNESS, LOVE, ADORATION, and AMAZEMENT!

Every experience I thought was negative, sorrowful, and sinful is now being used to glorify God and minister to others. I know the place that I am in now is just another thing God is going to use to glorify himself and I don't want any of the credit. I'm not the one who is in charge of my life, He is. I want to do NOTHING to get in the way of His glory. I trust Him completely, because I know from experience that He makes all things work together for MY good.

I know that I am the APPLE of His eye. The apple of your eye is the pupil-the most sensitive part of your body. You will instinctually protect your eye from any harm. It is protected above all else-just the way God protects you. He doesn't have to think about it. You are His most important priority. It is the ultimate comfort to know that God is protecting me above everything else and even the things that I think cannot possibly be happening for my good, are!

Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."