This I Know...

    You already have the love that your heart so desperately desires. The love that some people will search their entire lives for, but unless they accept Salvation through Jesus Christ, will never come to know. A perfect love from a God who never fails. You already have it... and there is N O T H I N G you could ever do to earn that love or loose it...ever. And looking for that love in people or things around you will disappoint you every time...will fail you, every time.
  
 Just like any love relationship, God wants you to spend time with Him. He wants you to do what He made you to do, Worship Him. Worship Him with abandonment because it doesn't matter who can see you or what they think of you or what you're going through...He's still God, He's still faithful, He is still perfect and He deserves nothing less than your whole hearted worship. He wants ALL of who you are. God is first and there is no 2nd place. There is no 'race' because God is the only one running. He wants His love to be the only love that guides us. He wants time spent with Him to be our highest treasure...to be your highest joy. He is a jealous lover, but He is all you'll ever need. And if anyone ever comes in the way of God having all of your heart, love that person from a distance. Pray continually that the love God so freely offers you will overwhelm that persons heart as well. God is the only thing that will ever be perfect. His plan for you is perfect and even when you deserve death because of your sins..He works everything together for your Good.
  
 So as the devil puts on his best attempt to bring me down, discourage me, pull my attention away from God, and to cause heartache, mischief, chaos, and pain I say this:

This I know, He has overcome.

^"22 The faithful love of the Lord never ends!^[a]
      His mercies never cease.
 ²³ Great is his faithfulness;
      his mercies begin afresh each morning."--Lamentations 3:22-23

^" I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me.

Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows.

But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”-- John 16:33

"For the Lord your God is living among you.
      He is a mighty savior.
   He will take delight in you with gladness.
      With his love, he will calm all your fears.
      He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”--Zephaniah 3:17

^"4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, ⁵ that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)"-- Ephesians 2:4-5