Survived

The definition of survived is to continue to live or exist; to endure or live through. There is a realty TV show called Survivor where the contestants have to face several different challenges and do their best to survive. Sometimes life can feel like our own version of Survivor.

We often face challenges that we expect along with surprises that test us in ways that push us to our limits. There are moments of victory and moments of defeat.

In the song “Held,” by Natalie Grant that I memtioned yesterday, is a phrase that says, “this is how it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive, this is what it is to be loved and to know that the promise was that when everything fell we’d be held.”

The challenges we face in this life have the potential to destroy us or to draw us closer to God. Like in the TV show, we have the choice of where our alliances will be made.

When we choose to align ourselves with God we are guaranteed that regardless of the outcome, we will survive. Whatever challenges that we face, God will bring us through one way or another. He can save us from the situation, walk us through it or bring us home to Him because of it.

Loss feels exactly like the song says, that something sacred is torn from your life. That loss isn’t only the loss of a loved one, but can be the loss of a marriage, a relationship or your hopes and dreams.

But it is in that loss that You will experience the characater of God is ways that you would not have known otherwise. It’s in that loss that your faith will grow and mature. It’s in that loss that you will know what it means to be loved by God as He upholds you and it’s in that loss that you will survive which truly means to live in Christ.

Be Intentional about aligning your heart with God.

Praises & Prayers

Father, thank you for seeing us through each and every challenge that we face. Help us to see Your hand of love and encouragement and remind us that to truly survive is to live in You. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Messages from His Word

Philippians 3:7-8

But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.  What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.