Breakthrough!

I am pleased to announce than I feel much better today, in more than one way! To summarize my breakthrough, I have seen a very thought provoking week, and thought, fought, and coughed through it. My belief system has been altered, my sinuses have been cleared, and I am more free than I was before!

The Lord is so good to me, and I cannot imagine living without Him! There would be no life. I must say, that through this week, even though I have wavered and been stuborn about what I thought He was telling me, He has just waited and patiently said, "I've got you right where I want you." Something that I am learning more and more every day is that pain is such a beautiful aspect of learning. Without the pain, we, in our human state, would be incapible of contrasting good and evil. What would good be without a contrary opponent? We would simply be living in what was called good but what felt ordinary. There is nothing good about feeling no pain on this earth. How could an imperfect man learn anything? On this earth, where imperfection prowls, there is no way that an absense of it, in effect, can be completely satisfactory to the sinful, indefinite being.

Praise God for the covenant He made with me at the cross, and that I am washed in the blood of the Lamb. Now I will taste freedom and new life, and it will be satisfactory to me.

Abundance is authored by Him alone, and all life flows from Him. I am dead to Christ, but because He is alive, I, in spirit, am alive, too. What a blessing. And yet knowing of all the benefits I get out of the relationship with my perfect heavenly Dad, He, simultaneously, gets all of the glory. Because it is all about Him, and He knows it.

Getting on to less important things, it is true, I am no longer sick. It is also true that I still have a wee stuffy nose, but I feel much better, all around. It is wonderful timing, because today is Saturday, and I can take some time to complete my 4-day-long period of resting on the Sabath!

In addition to the pain and reasoning He has been revealing to me, I have also been shown a glimpse of what is vanity to me. Yesterday, I was pondering what I was to read at the beginning of the Sabath, and Ecclesiastes was the winning elect. I have read in Ecclesiastes many times, but there is always something new to learn, so I started reading. He is teaching me what is vanity to me, what to change and what to let go of. I will keep you updated!

In Awe of Almighty,
With Sincerity,
Rachel Kennedy