I am presently going into a recuperation phase...
I need to get refreshed and re-energized. But I already feel a tremendous weight off me now that the parole hearing is over. Although I do feel physically and emotionally exhausted from this recent wave of trials and challenges, my heart remains knit to the Lord's. I belong to Jesus, and He belongs to me.
In my quiet times with the Lord today, the Holy Spirit reminded me that nothing can separate me from God's love. Because I am in the Lord's hands, I have been able to experience a deeper fellowship with Him. These disappointments and difficulties, hardships and struggles, serve to keep me humble. They cause me to cling more to Christ. And besides, in these situations He faithfully provides His enabling strength that I can endure and not give up.
Of course, Satan seems to try his best to darken my testimony. He works hard at getting people to only see my past and not what I am today. This is part of the battle. He doesn't want me to be free of the past. He wants to keep me a prisoner to it, but I'm not. I am already free!
Still, Satan will use the media to remind me as well as society of my crimes long ago. He wants to somehow torment me by this. Yet I know what the Word of God says: I am a new creation in Christ. Old things have passed away, and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
God's word is stronger than Satan. The Lord's word shall prevail. And for me, this is what counts!
D.B.
In my quiet times with the Lord today, the Holy Spirit reminded me that nothing can separate me from God's love. Because I am in the Lord's hands, I have been able to experience a deeper fellowship with Him. These disappointments and difficulties, hardships and struggles, serve to keep me humble. They cause me to cling more to Christ. And besides, in these situations He faithfully provides His enabling strength that I can endure and not give up.
Of course, Satan seems to try his best to darken my testimony. He works hard at getting people to only see my past and not what I am today. This is part of the battle. He doesn't want me to be free of the past. He wants to keep me a prisoner to it, but I'm not. I am already free!
Still, Satan will use the media to remind me as well as society of my crimes long ago. He wants to somehow torment me by this. Yet I know what the Word of God says: I am a new creation in Christ. Old things have passed away, and all things have become new (2 Corinthians 5:17).
God's word is stronger than Satan. The Lord's word shall prevail. And for me, this is what counts!
D.B.