broken and completely victorious.

As you can see, I haven’t posted on here for a while.  These past few weeks have been rough, to say the least. To kind of give you an idea of whats goin on with me:

As of right now, the only person I have a good relationship with in my family is my mom. My youngest sister hates me. My parents aren’t talking and their marriage is on the rocks, again.  My dad is never home and doesn’t even know what class I’m taking (much less anything else about me right now.) I haven’t seen my mom this sad in a long time. Oh, and to top it off my dad says we’re moving. We’ve been living here for about nine years, have the best neighbors in the world (who are more family than friends) and it is gonna be the hardest thing knowing I can’t call them when I need aluminum foil or take a short walk to their house when I’m in need of a good laugh.

This is just some of the stuff that’s going on in my life right now. And it sucks. But I didn’t tell you this stuff for you to feel bad for me, I’m not looking for pity. I’m putting my personal life out there for you to see my scars, my brokenness. Because even though I am a Christian, life still happens. Jesus didn’t promise a perfect life once you except him in your heart. But he did promise joy amongst the sorrow and victory through the battle.

Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. – Romans 8:35-37

Everybody has battles throughout life and everyone has scars. Everyone has been broken. And there are millions of people that are going through bigger battles than I am. But this is my battle, and its hard. Sometimes I get tired and I don’t understand. But I’m not God. I don’t know why God is letting my family go through this, no body knows His reasoning. I DO however know that God works ALL THINGS out for the good, for those who love Him!

Despite my families brokenness right now, Jesus promised that we already have overwhelming victory. God has truly comforted me through his word and given me the strength to trust Him. My family will be unified one day!

So I hope my story can be of help to you in your broken times too, because we all go through it. But just know God can comfort you and make you completely victorious through whatever battle it is your facing.

Oh Israel, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? How can you say God refuses to hear your case? Have you never heard or understood? Don’t you know that the LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth? He never grows faint or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to those who are tired and worn out; he offers strength to the weak. Even youths will become exhausted, and young men will give up. But those who wait on the LORD will find new strength. They will fly high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.  –Isaiah 40:27-31.