Tuesday, October 26, 2010

don't you realize

`I heard a lady's testimony today online and it touched me deeply. The words, "Don't you realize ~ that you cannot make your own heart beat? don't you realize ~ that all the power you think you posses, that you posses none of it? It is the mercy of God that sustains you... even when you hate Him." (Gianna Jessen 2008)

How often I think I'm in control when I have absolutely no control of even my own heart beat. This quote reminded me so much of my father. How the Lord has used his life as a walking testimony of God's healing power. How over and over again, God has given him the strength to keep faithfully walking. It amazes me daily what God has done for my dad.

Gianna Jessen is an abortion survivor. Her verbal testimony states that her biological mother, at the age of 17, decided to have a saline abortion in the seventh month of pregnancy. When all odds stacked against her... God had more power. When everyone gave up on her... she was hated since conception... when no one wanted her... when her life was not needed... God made it clear that He had a plan for her. God made it clear that He loves her. After 18 hours from the injection, she arrived alive. Death didn't win. "I consider all for the glory of God." "God has a way of making the most miserable thing beautiful."

Do you realize that death is the last battle Christ will fight for us? Christ has overcome death. Upon His return, "the dead in Christ will rise first," I Thessalonians 4:16