I hope we are all enjoying our school holidays!!
I was having a think about some of the things that have happened in the last week to me personally, and I have realised how much of a force we as Youth of the 21st Century are blessed to be believers of Jesus Christ.
We have the power to create and change things in our world, in our schools, in our work places.
God has blessed us with his Glory and his Holy Spirit. He has created us to be amazing!!
And WE ARE!!!!
To be a young person with Faith is not an easy thing.
We have so many obstacles in our path, so many struggles, so many days when we fall on our knees and cry out to God.
But as my good friend once pointed out to me God even had troubles like this, just take a look at John 16:33
John 16:33 (New International Version)
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but I know now that no matter how hard my battle with this world may seem God has already fought the same battle and overcome it.
He never told me it was going to be easy, in fact He pretty much told me ahead of time that I was going to have hard times ahead.
BUT He has promised me eternity because I believe that He is my God, my Saviour, my Heavenly Father who I love.
I am a Princess of the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth.
HE is MY Father! I am a treasured CHILD of the LORD GOD!
Now I don't know how that makes anyone else feel but for me, I feel so special, I rejoice in the fact that HE wants to know everything about ME!
I feel like I could wear this smile for weeks on end and not get tired of it. And if when I walked down the street and people tapped me on the shoulder and say
"excuse me miss, why do you seem so happy? I've seen you for the last couple of days and you are always smiling, why do you smile?"
I would place my hand on their shoulder and tell them that
"I am so happy because Lord of all the heavens and the earth loves me! As small and insignificant I believe I am, He is willing to stop everything and sit with me and listen to everything I have to say. How amazing is that? How amazing is it that the God of everything is my Father and he will always be there for me?"
It's likely to leave the person quite dumb founded but it is the truth, the amazing truth and the promise that God has given and promised to us.
WE are SO lucky!!!
God has hold of us in an eternal friendship, an eternal relationship of unconditional, and unfathomable love that will never die.
He loves us so much!!
So much so that the Lord has provided us with our own army of angels, He wants us to feel comforted, safe, loved and happy.
Your angels are all around you!!
Your friends, your parents, your boyfriend or girlfriend, your teachers, your pets, your brothers and sisters, the people at youth group!
We are each others angels!!
We have the power to help each other, and to be angels of the Lord for one another, to be the brothers and sisters of the Lord God to each other.
To be the Sons and Daughters of the Almighty God is an honour and I treasure it!
I hope you do too.
Just some food for thought there,
Hope you have a God Blessed day
Much love
Hailey
