You are not destined to be Alone

        Searching. We spend most of our lives doing it. As children, for friends, toys, anything that draws our fancy. As teens, (and in adulthood) we are looking for meaning and direction for our lives, something to bring us a sense of purpose and accomplishment. We can find much of this in knowing we are called by God and for God to be witnesses and followers of Him... But, we all know this, there's still more we need. Deep down, there is that certain void that still needs to be filled by a different kind of Love. God Himself said so. "Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him." (Genesis 2:18).

      He promised that there is someone who is "Just right" for you. Out there in the world right now is your 'better half', your One. And, if we will discipline ourselves to wait for our one, since "It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;"  (1 Thessalonians 4:3) and live by God, trusting in His timing and His Plan, He's vowed to bring us together. It may not be in the way you expect. Or the period in your life you'd prefer. Our plan for how we want our lives and our love to work out is not His Plan.

        He understands how much you feel alone, and how the "if only I had someone to hold" thoughts seem to creep up. He knows what you're going through. But, until we seek as much as we can from Him, He will not send you your One. We have to learn to put Him first, so that when His Plan takes a sudden and unexpected turn, we'll willing follow, and should there be a trial or test along the way, we'll find strength in HIM to push through. Because as much as earthly Love can be made pure and holy in God's eyes, and the pleasures and comfort it brings when done correctly, it can also be a distraction.

      You see, even Adam had to complete his first task of naming the animals before God created his reward.

      To all of us still waiting for our One, let us pray for His Will to pass. Because, as is promised, His Will has our ultimate best interest at Heart, our Love and our needs will be met through His Plan. And, in time, He will reveal Himself and His Design to those who seek Him. "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." (1 John 5:14)

With my Love and His, Arial, Lioness of God, waiting as you wait, for His Ultimate Plan, for our One's, and His Return.

1 Peter 3:13-22

"Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. “Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened.” But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring YOU to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to Him."  

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With my Love and His, Arial LionessofGod

Take His Hand…

  One must only reach a hand into the darkness to help bring another into the light.

It doesn’t take much soul-searching to realize, and to admit to yourself, you’ve needed some one to be that hand for you, many times throughout your life. We’ve all needed that extra assurance that someone cared enough to help us. When the rest of the world kicks us while we’re down, we are always seeking the condemning crowd for a face promising more than rebuke and a hand offering more than retribution. And by the birth and death of Jesus Christ, and through the washing of His Blood and the power of the Holy Spirit, we’ve been offered that hand. Though hard to find at times, or simply forgotten to be sought after, and often concealed by doubt, His Hand has always been there. For everyone. And often times He sends someone into our lives to be a reflection of His Hands, to help us rise from the pits of our existence, pray on our knees, and finally to stand and face the world. And, above all this, above His Comfort and His Peace, above His Love and His Power, above all, is His Mercy and His Grace, and the honor He has bestowed on anyone willing to humble themselves to His Will and take His Hand, so that we should submit and He might lead you through life, like a parent leads a child, rearing us away from harm and picking us back up should we let go and stumble along the way.

Take His Hand, my fellow Lions, let Him guide you. He has promised to never lead us astray nor forsake us in times of need. He will never desert you. Never block you out. And never once forget, forsake, or fail to forgive you.

With my love and His~ Arial, Lioness of God

Don’t lose Hope

The second we lose hope, we lose our future. For without a hope in tomorrow and the joy it might bring, we will no longer care if it comes, and should it come, we will hide, away, in the dark, thinking nothing of the joy we might once have possessed if only we'd pushed through.

We will sit there, crying, dead to the world that we thought had beaten us so badly we could not rise again, and there, without hope, we will die. Faith will only be a memory, of a time when we thought we’d once glimpsed happiness, only to have it seemingly stolen from us and our will to live taken with it.

Without hope, we are dead. Without faith, we are lost, without realizing we are worth putting up a fight, we will lose.

So why then, give up hope? Why lose this precious glimpse of light in our lives where our actions define who we can be? Why give in? Don’t let the world take you down, don’t submit. Why thrown up a white flag when our heart's blaze red???

Do not lose Hope, or faith, nor your right to Love and Be Loved - These give us our place in the world, and a light in our hearts. These mold us into the Children of God we are all capable of being. These, are what shapes the color and texture of our hearts...

 

“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13

“And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God, while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed.” Titus 2:13

“For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.” Ephesians 4:4