The Lord's heart for the "Perfect Dance"

Daughter,

I have MISSED you.

I watched you look back.

To the past.

To your faults.

To your sin.

You told me to hold on......just for one second.

You told me you would be RIGHT. back.

You just needed to make sure that you were done for good.

That that chapter of your life was really closed.

You just wanted to make sure you said goodbye....

But as you walked across the beach,

and got farther and farther from Me,

you began to realize, that what you were looking at in the distance,

was never really there.

And it left you standing there.

Confused.

Empty.

Wandering.

You didn't know where to go.

So you decided to come back to Me.

You WANTED to come back to Me.

But as you turned around,

you saw that your footsteps in the sand had been washed away by the waves.

And you couldn't remember the way back.

You realized you couldn't get back to me.

You didn't know HOW to get back.

My heart ACHED for you.

YEARNED for you.

That you would simply CALL OUT My name.

And I would have been right. there.

But in your pride,

you decided that you would do it on. your. own.

YOU would try to find your own way back.

But as you searched and searched, and searched some more.....

you just drifted farther and farther away.

Because here is the thing, precious daughter....

You can't get back.

Or at least, you can't do it on your own.

And you couldn't do it on your own.

So with what little you had left,

with your last breath,

you called out My name.

MY name.

And I was right. there.

I had never left you.

Never lost sight of where you were.

I just needed you to call out My name.

And I would come running.

I gathered you from the ends of the earth.

Picked you up.

Dried your tears.

And CARRIED. YOU. HOME.

"Even if you have wandered to the most distant lands under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will bring. you. back."

Deuteronomy 30:4

Matthew 18:13

"I tell you the truth, He is happier about finding that one lost sheep than about the 99 that did not wander off. He is not willing to lose you."

Daughter, you are that one lost sheep.

And I am not willing to ever lose you.

You are perfect to Me.

Forever His,

Rach

Thank you, Kelly Clarkson. But I don't wanna be Miss Independent, anymore....

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty.

I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,

whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.

I can do all things through Him who gives me strength."

Philippians 4:12-13

"I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."

Psalm 16:8

Paul and David.

Two FIERCE men of the Lord.

David was named a man after God's own heart.

Paul wrote like half the New Testament.

You want to know how they did it?

How they were so strong, fierce, bold?

Stood firm in the faith?

They DEPENDED on the Lord.

.........That's it.

They gave up everything. And depended on the Lord.

With dependence, comes self-sacrifice.

With dependence, must come an undivided heart.

Unwilling to yield to any other.

......Dependence.

Paul says He knows how to be absolutely, completely, perfectly, incandescently content.

In every circumstance.

You know why He can say that?

Because he can do ALL things through Him, who gave Him all the strength He needed.

......Dependence.

David says that He sets the Lord ALWAYS before him. CONTINUALLY before him.

He says he can NEVER be shaken.

Why?

Because He set the Lord always. before him.

Complete and utter dependence.

To sit in the silence, and know that He's there.

To fall on my face, and cry my heart out till there's nothing left.

To know and believe, that He is really the only one who can ever bring me joy.

To see His restoration in my life, and know that it was HIM ALONE who has brought beauty from pain.

Lord,

I have wandered so far.

But I thank you that even though I have "wandered to the most distant lands under the heavens, from there You have gathered me up, and brought me back". Deuteronomy 30:4

You are my God.

There is no other.

Therefore, I give my everything to You.

And say I DEPEND on You.

Without You,

there IS no. life.

Forever His,

Rach