That's My King!!!

So, it's 45 degrees in Dallas tonight...my favorite weather in the whole wide world. I could walk and talk in that weather all night long...
It's also nights like these, where I love to reflect on spiritual milestones and breathroughs I have experienced with my sweet Jesus. I don't want to go too heavy into those things over this blog, well at least not yet, but I do want to share a magnificent verse that was my prayer for a very long time. It was recently spoken over our choir before our service began, and it brought me back to that place of brokeness where God was delicate and sweet with me, and how He helped me survive that dark place in my life. This verse is powerful and any of you who are sitting there wondering where God is in the midst of the rubble... take this verse, claim it, take refuge in Him....

Psalm 31
1 In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge;
let me never be put to shame;
deliver me in your righteousness.
2 Turn your ear to me,
come quickly to my rescue;
be my rock of refuge,
a strong fortress to save me.

3 Since you are my rock and my fortress,
for the sake of your name lead and guide me.

4 Free me from the trap that is set for me,
for you are my refuge.

5 Into your hands I commit my spirit;
redeem me, O LORD, the God of truth.

6 I hate those who cling to worthless idols;
I trust in the LORD.

7 I will be glad and rejoice in your love,
for you saw my affliction
and knew the anguish of my soul.

8 You have not handed me over to the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place.

9 Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eyes grow weak with sorrow,
my soul and my body with grief.

10 My life is consumed by anguish
and my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction, [a]
and my bones grow weak.

11 Because of all my enemies,
I am the utter contempt of my neighbors;
I am a dread to my friends—
those who see me on the street flee from me.

12 I am forgotten by them as though I were dead;
I have become like broken pottery.

13 For I hear the slander of many;
there is terror on every side;
they conspire against me
and plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."

15 My times are in your hands;
deliver me from my enemies
and from those who pursue me.

16 Let your face shine on your servant;
save me in your unfailing love.

17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD,
for I have cried out to you;
but let the wicked be put to shame
and lie silent in the grave. [b]

18 Let their lying lips be silenced,
for with pride and contempt
they speak arrogantly against the righteous.

19 How great is your goodness,
which you have stored up for those who fear you,
which you bestow in the sight of men
on those who take refuge in you.

20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from the intrigues of men;
in your dwelling you keep them safe
from accusing tongues.

21 Praise be to the LORD,
for he showed his wonderful love to me
when I was in a besieged city.

22 In my alarm I said,
"I am cut off from your sight!"
Yet you heard my cry for mercy
when I called to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all his saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful,
but the proud he pays back in full.

24 Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the LORD.

I dont know about you, but as I talk to more and more girls about life it seems that life has gotten more and more complicated than when I was theire age. There are more and more things to distract us, bring us down, put us down, lie to us...this information is coming faster and louder than ever before. I talk to more girls in abusive relationships, more girls with eating disorders, more girls from broken homes...more girls looking for hope in the midst of this crazy thing called life and not sure where to find it.

Even when you are a believer we have these doubts, as I talked about in last week's post. My challenge to you last week was...Do we really think God is who He says He is? If our whole world crumbled like Job's.... would we still think He was sovereign? Do we truly think that He is perfect in our weaknesses and His grace is sufficient?

Now, I don't know if you have gotten to that point where you feel like you can truly answer yes. If you haven't, this challenge might help facilitate an answer, and if you have then this challenge will hopefully affirm that yes in you.

How has God shown up in your life? Big and small. What struggles or trials has he brought you through? When? Where? How?
Reflecting on that evidence tonight has given me this unreal confidence that I serve a breathtaking Savior. Who has never left me. Ever. That's My King....