“THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ME”

That was me to my fantastic son, Emmie, yesterday when I found a piece of paper where he amazingly wrote this:

“Preparation: Our Responsibility

Even in the most difficult battles, in the most ROUGH TERRAIN…the warrior who comes prepared will always defeat the enemy. Preparation is what it takes to succeed.”

I told him how I’ve been going through a lot lately (A ROUGH TERRAIN!) and how my runs every day with God are what mentally prepare me to manfully and bravely take on whatever hard battles that come my way. I’m reminded that I’m not going through life alone and that God Himself is always standing beside me.

Can you believe that less than 30 minutes later, God confirmed that this was indeed a message from Him? I had to peepee (TMI!), and I thought to see what God had to say to me in a 757-page devotional I keep in our bathroom, and this astonishingly showed up, written as if God was speaking directly to me:

“LEARN TO APPRECIATE difficult days. Be stimulated by the challenges you encounter along your way. As you journey through ROUGH TERRAIN (Wink! Wink!) with Me, gain confidence from your knowledge that together we can handle anything.” – Jesus Calling by Sarah Young

No way that could just be an ordinary coincident for me to find those words “ROUGH TERRAIN” written on a piece of paper by my 12-year-old son and for the same “ROUGH TERRAIN” to show up in this huge devotional minutes later. It was indeed God revealing His invisible Presence wherever I go and His DEEP, DEEP love for me.

“what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?”- Psalm 8:4

On the run today with Him, I enjoyed Justin Bieber’s song, Come Around Me, that says, “Let’s not miss out on each other. Let’s get it in expeditiously.” I feel that’s His message to all of us. Let’s not miss out on a life close to God. I don’t know about you, but I’m taking His hand like a little child crossing the street every moment of my life. Especially in the saddest and most difficult of times, as He finds these sweet ways of saying, “I am always with you.”

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