Just Fine
Psalm 30:5 (Amplified Bible)
5For His anger is but for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime or in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.(A)
Today’s Mary music message comes from her great single “Just Fine”. This song is so powerful and inspirational for men and women of all ages, races and backgrounds. It’s a song about choosing to live life to the fullest no matter what it throws at you.
The funny about this blog is that I had already knew I would be using this song for today. What I didn’t know was that 24 hours before I wrote it I would be hit with a blow so hard, it almost took my breathe away. How do you wake up and move on when you discover everything you’d been living for the last 2 years of your life has been a lie- - -AGAIN? How do you keep on going when the one person you gave your everything to, was only lying and using you? How do you begin to pick and start over when you feel like you’ve lost a vital organ in your body?
The answer is simple……………with God. My heart had been broken by my ex-husband a few years back and then I was blessed with the man of my dreams. In my eyes he could do no wrong. He showed me that I could trust again. That although every man since my biological father had deserted or hurted me, that someone out there wanted to love me. Well, that all just blew up in my face overnight. He did the exact thing my ex-husband did, but you know what was different this time. ME.
I am JUST FINE. I am hurt and broke but not broken. I turned it over to God, because He is the somebody who will and has always loved me. Because of God’s love and spirit dwelling in me, I have no hatred in my heart and no desire for retaliation. I wish nothing ill on him and nor do I wish God not continue to prosper him. I pray for him though because you do reap what you sow. He may not feel it now, or in a two years or even ten, but one day it will come back and when it does it will be God’s doing- - -and that’s so much worse than anything I could think of on my own. My victory would cause minimal damage and a temporary moment of pleasure, but God’s wrath leaves a legacy behind and follows you for a lifetime.
See I’ve learned that man can hurt you, but God will always heal you. I’ve learned that man will use and abuse you, but God will use it to His glory. I’ve learned that man will let you down even when it’s not his intentions, but that God will lift you up.
Life is full of surprises- - -good and bad- - -and its our choice to choose how we accept them. We can let the actions of others cause us to doubt who we are or what our value is. Or we can let our actions show God, that for Him we will live and die. No matter how much pain I feel in this moment right now, I know that God still has a plan for me and my daughter. I know that He still is God and that He is a good God. I have no intentions on letting this break me. In the song Mary says “So I like what I see, when I’m looking at me, when I’m walking past the mirror”. It’s so much more that the outside apperarance- - - -the make-up, outfit and the shoes. It’s about the soul of the woman looking back at her.
May today you determine to live so that the image you see in the mirror is one that you and God can be proud of. Today let us all purpose in our hearts, that come hell or high water, with Christ we will choose to be JUST FINE. When life decides to throw a pile of bricks at you, don’t get buried underneath them, stand and use them to build your bigger and better house!!!!!!!!!!!
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