Peace Be Still

I have absolutely slacked on my relationship with the Lord the past 2-3 weeks. He's been on my back burner and I have definitely felt the lack of peace creak back into my life. Though, as I have been made a child of God through His salvation, I have still received blessings, confirmation, and best of all, He continues to reassure me and call me back into His presence. He tells me to not beat myself up over my lack of commitment to Him, but to simply get back into our relationship so I can continue to grow with Him. 

My lack of commitment and discipline with my relationship may cause me to fall every once in a while, but He never holds it against me. He simply ushers me back into the room with Him. Wanting to continue to share and hold me as the cherished child He has created me to be. 

Holy Spirit has definitely still worked through me, allowing me to bless others during this timeframe that I have slacked, only deepening the reassurance given to me that, yes, absolutely my Father wants to still use me for His Heavenly Kingdom. My lack of discipline is something my Father already factored in with our relationship. He already knows all that I need to hear, see, and know to continue pursuing a God who is beyond my own comprehension. And the more that I realize I can never know God full-in-full, instead of Him using it to boast about how great He is, He tells me that as great as His glory is, so am I in His presence. For He does not look at me and see all the ways I was less than for salvation, but because the price has already been paid, He looks at me as if a mother just set eyes on her newborn baby for the first time. With complete admiration, respect, and love deeper than the oceans, and wider than the universe. 

To my Father, I am precious in His hands, and forever in His hands will I remain. He told me I was priceless, which is why He sent His one and only Son to die for my salvation, because the price of one paid for all. And He would do it again. The love of my Father is worth more than I could ever give. 

In my Father's arms, I remain. In Jesus's name, I am saved. 

Amen.