Make lemonade anyway.
Goodness. These past few weeks have been so many things but easy. Within the past 6 weeks I have lost a Uncle and Aunt, quit my job, got rid of everything I owned with the exception of two boxes of personal items and two backpacks I am taking on the race with me, sold my first car, moved out of my house, said “see ya later to all my Tennessee friends, went to training camp, and I have been told another one of my Aunt’s has just a few weeks left to live. Talk about a hard season. I’m getting ready to leave the country for the next 11 months and it sort of feels like my whole world is crumbling.
But it is in the midst of all of this that one thing becomes more real… God’s faithfulness. He really will never leave us or forsake us. In the midst of all of this there were days when I was weary and I was ready to give up. In this place is where I had to make a decision to press in and pursue God and invite Him in. I had every right to be mad at God and question Him. To tell the truth I was mad at Him and I did question Him. My Uncle’s death was first and I do not think I have ever had to face something as challenging as this. It was a nightmare, everyday asking myself if he was really gone. It still is something that is difficult for me to grasp. I went days where I had no desire to seek God, or call on Him. Hope y’all do not mind my vulnerability here. But this is life. We have good days and bad days. There is a right time to lament and another to cheer. I have found myself asking when that time will come. Rather than making time for it.
That is where the “make lemonade anyway” comes in. Right now I feel as if my basket is empty, I see no lemons. But that is only in the natural my friends. I know that this is not really my home I am actually seated in Heavenly places, I am a citizen of Heaven.
“For He raised us from the dead along with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ Jesus.” – Ephesians 2:6
“But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives.” – Philippians 3:20
It is not that I am faking my joy, because I’m not. It is that I do not look to natural things to be what gives me joy. If we set our eyes on what is in front of us to give us joy some of us would be in a hot mess. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
“For the joy of the Lord is your strength” – Nehemiah 8:10
“I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from God, who made heaven, and earth, and mountains. – Psalm 121:1-2
Praise the Lord! Natural things such as television, social media, money, parties, alcohol, drugs, ect. Those things will fail us, but not Jesus. He is not a God who disappoints. He is my Rock. He is my Lemonade. Although it looks like I have very little, I have everything because I have Jesus. This is a good thing, I am in a great place. A place where I look up to the mountains. I look to Him for my Lemons, my joy, my strength. He looks back at me with a glad heart. Because I continue to say “yes” to Him. Nothing is going to stop me, He has given me a commission, I will continue to run this race until the day I go home to be with Him. This may offend some people, it may even offend some family and friends. But until you hear my story I do not expect you to understand.
My prayer is that we will continue to look to the Lord for our strength and for our joy. Trust in Him everyday to supply all our needs. Jesus we love you and we honor you.
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