I'm still standing!!!

I'm still standing.... I'm still standing...I'm still standing but by the grace of God. I wish I could blame the freezing weather for my absence or my packed schedule but I'll only be lying... I haven't felt the passion to write despite the fact I've had a lot happen to me that I would have loved to share.

I couldn't sleep through out last night so I spent the time praying and praising God... It's funny how through your hurt, if you find enough time to seek God, He sends a word that comforts you...So while praying, I came across a passage in the bible (2 Corinthians 4: 6-18)

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed-----
always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus
also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
So then death is working in us, but life in you.
And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written,
"I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak.
Knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus,
and will present us with you.
For all things are for your sakes that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
Therefore we do not lose heart .Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the
inward man is being renewed day by day.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
AMEN!

I realize that was a long passage but after reading that, it hit me....Talk as much as you want about me...Dog me as much as it pleases you ... Lie about me in order to make yourself look better, feel better or be received better...But guess what when all is said and done, I WILL STILL BE STANDING.

For how long will I try to fight my battles, for how long will I try to correct the lies of men... For how long will I continue to defend myself? It's hurts but I can't but imagine that the Lord I serve went through greater pains but yet was glorified.

Today I thank God for all the persecutions, now I understand what He has been trying to teach me.."They will come at you like bees, with stings of death but on your behalf I will set a standard". Like in the times of Joshua, I will sing my praise aloud to you Lord, knowing that you are my rock and my refuge.

I realize my last two posts have been downers but hey! If I can't share with you guys my hurt, then why share my joy! Sorrow may last for a night but joy comes in the morning...My morning is here!