amazing grace

My heart is full.

I don't even know where to begin. I have mixed feelings right now- the desire to be poetic and graceful vs. shouting at the top of my lungs the beauty and joy of this day.

I have written and backspaced fifty times over and I just cant settle on words that encompass it all. How about I just tell you the story and let it speak for itself.

I have this friend. He is always happy, always encouraging other people, full of joy, the most humble servant, really funny, loyal more than likely to the death and has the best smile in Haiti. Sunday he was in a car accident that has crushed and broken many of his vertebrae. It all seemed devastating to say the least. Not only have we been praying for total healing, we have been praying for something even better- salvation. My friend isn't a believer. He's heard, he's been, its just not for him he says. For someone so dear to my heart, so full of life and love, I found it hard to believe we didn't share a Savior. The last month it has been heavy in my heart to pray for him. So I would pray, as I am sure others that know him have been doing. Then the accident. Then more prayers. Then today. After a week in the hospital and I am sure many more weeks to come, my friend in his words "has his Savior now."

Did you catch that? HE HAS JESUS! My friend that didn't now does. The hope of glory living in me now lives in him. The abundant never ending rivers of living water flow to him. What the enemy meant for harm God used for complete goodness. VICTORY.

And its hitting me like a ton of bricks. The joy of salvation as I watch someone see Jesus for the first time, confess their need for him, believe in faith he saves them. Its incredible. Jesus was something everyone had when I was growing up. I realize now more and more the weight of this, the reality of a perfect God dying for imperfect people and then putting everything good and righteous in them so they could have full eternal complete access to the Father. And my friend has that. He has it. Its more than just a heaven thing, its a thriving not just surviving in this world thing.

I am past being poetic. Real talk- salvation is everything. It should be equally as burdensome to know millions of people don't have this as it is joyful when even just one comes to him.

Today my friend said on the phone " I have my Savior now." Pure and simple. The joy of our salvation. We have a Savior.

I just wanted to tell you that. So that in your seemingly hopeless situation that you have prayed for over and over relentlessly so, you can have peace and take comfort in knowing there is hope. The last word belongs to our King. And he is not finished yet with the work he has begun. So keep praying, sowing, worshipping, believing, giving. Stand firm in the joy of your salvation. Don't get so caught up in your anointing, life purpose, dream husband, gifts and talents. We've already been given the greatest gift. Don't keep it to yourself.

I dance and rejoice with the angels tonight. Jesus has another one in the books. Victory.