Everyone that has ever walked on this sin drenched earth has been blindsided. We have all had our feet pulled out from under us. I have on more than one occasion, and I am sure you have as well. Recently, one of my worst nightmares came true, and I survived. I am still surviving. My heart feels like it has been obliterated, but I am still standing and breathing. I wish I could say that, like Job, my first reaction was to fall on my knees and praise God, but I am not that holy. Instead, I fell apart. Although I know this blog is for a class, I also know that it is permanently on the internet. This blog will be here long after I have completed Collo. One day, someone will happen upon this blog, and everything I am writing now will be exactly what they need to hear. I know this because that is how our Heavenly Father works. He uses our brokenness and our divine comfort to comfort others. He even tells us this in 2 Corinthians 1. I want you to know that life truly does go on. We can heal. We can hope, even when it feels like all hope is lost. The enemy can move in, he can attack, he can hurt us in the deepest places of our hearts, but we can still breath and praise Jesus in the brokenness. I am going to leave you with the words of the Holy Spirit through the Apostle Paul. As you read them, remember that this is a promise from our Holy and Mighty Savior. He holds all things together, even us when we fall apart. He remembers that we are but dust (Psalm 103) and redeems our life from the pit.
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.
8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body.
12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
13It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak,
14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself.
15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.
17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."
