You Make Beautiful Things...

(Song of the Week) Beautiful Things by Gungor





When people ask me how I know that God and real, this is my one answer: Having the faith in him, trusting him, watching him do amazing things and sharing the testimony of that faith.
He's faithful, all the way through until the end. I know that this is a very redundant statement that comes out of my mouth, goes on my twitter, and something that I often post on here, but no matter how much I write it or say it, it will never measure up to how real and how good he really is. He is more than a void of air. He's more real than the sky above us or the ground beneath us. His very breath is what we are living in.

Press on when the journey is long. Press on when it gets difficult. Press on even when darkness is all around you. Press on even when there is not a light at the end of the tunnel. Press on even when you're tired of pressing and all you want to do is shut the world out and wade in this pool of melancholy and negativity. Because what will happen when you finally reach the other side is immeasurable. You will never know what the other side will look like until you press on, and once you reach the other side, you will see things you never knew you could before. You will see beautiful things, because he makes all things new and beautiful. He crafts beauty out of what was once a bare tree, waiting for Spring to come.

This is what I've come to learn within the past three months, after going through a season of winter. It's time for new things that I never expected to begin. Don't get caught up in the season, because there is an end to it and a beginning of something new when we're patient and ever pressing forward for more of his love and knowledge.
He answers when we call upon him. He is always speaking; we are to listen. He is always answering- we are to seek. He is always listening- we just have to knock.

Faith Triumphs in Trouble

Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

-Romans 5:1-5