One year ago today I packed up this Uhual in the middle of crazy snow to move back to my hometown – Belle, Missouri – the one place I hated the most. The one place I swore I would NEVER live again.
The place where so much pain had burdened my heart – both pain done to me and pain I’d done to myself and others.
BUT GOD REDEEMS THE TIME.
In Joel 2:25, “The LORD says, “I will give you back what you lost to the swarming locusts, the hopping locusts, the stripping locusts, and the cutting locusts.”
Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
He has done just that. In the last 365 days, He has rejuvenated relationships with my family. He has strengthened old friendships. He has brought new friends into my life I can’t imagine doing life without. He has plugged me into a church family I am forever grateful for.
He has opened bigger doors for Esther’s House than I could have ever asked or imagined. He has put the mission of offering hope to broken women on the hearts of many and He isn’t done yet.
I’ve watched women be set free, fall in love with who Jesus says they are, and learn how to relabel themselves with who God says they are.
In the last 365 days, the enemy has tried to destroy me in more ways than one. He has attacked me, my family, my friends.
BUT. HE. DOESN’T. WIN.
God is good. God redeems the time. He restores what the locusts have eaten.
What if we all lived our lives with an absolute knowing that God will restore us? That He redeems the time?
What if we went All In for Jesus and let Him do with our lives what He most desires?
Let’s do it!
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