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A thousand years are like a day, and a day is like a thousand years! What a powerful promise from a creator that promises his plan. A plan that is focused on one thing: Ultimate Glory.  A few days ago I wrote about a dark, gloomy, and just yuck of a day! It sucked, but I found hope in the fact that God sometimes calls us to crawl into the crap of life we deal with. Sometimes its his hope, his desire, and our purpose to sit in the sorrow of life. As long as we understand that it takes that breaking down, and takes the weak points in life to truly appreciate the good in life, then we will be fine.

Sometimes for me, it takes a lot of prayer to come out of the muck. For me, I just pray that I will get to experience Jesus Christ in my days. This experience is the fuel for me. This experience of the most powerful love man can know, is what causes me to understand that its all for His glory! These experiences are what should cause us to live in the light of his son! To celebrate with everything in us for the grace, mercy and forgiveness of our creator. These experiences are nothing more than overflowing love for the God of the eternal universe.

So after praying this prayer for a few days, or years [who knows how long in God’s time. 2 peter 3:8] God decided that I should learn something. A simple phrase that would allow me to get a tiny taste of who he was. It was a little bit like when someone hits you or nudges you to wake up because you have been dosing off.

I don’t know about you, but I feel at times that I have been dosing off in the faith. Drifting away as my child-like faith begins to faint. So in order to hold on to that faith, I just pray for the experience of Jesus Christ!

This experience allows us to get on with our day. The experience for me was the simple phrase that reminded me that my God, is more powerful than anything else in the world. More powerful than dark days, and more powerful than disappointing people. Want to know why?

MY GOD IS A GOD WHO SAVES!!!!!!! 

That simple concept is what causes our God to be the greatest GOD ever! He sent his son, so we could be saved.

Saved from the dirt of the world.

Saved from the sick gloomy rain that life sends us every once in a while.

Saved from the eternal damnation of sin

Saved for his glory.

Saved by grace.

Saved, because that’s what my God does!

So just sit back a minute and let that process. My God, Your God is a God who is able to save people! That should be enough to know that the day is a bit clearer now. The skies are sunny, and the rain doesn't matter anymore. God is here. God is near. God saves!!

-L.