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WHAT ARE THE WORDS YOU HOLD IN YOUR HEART?

Are words like afraid, discouraged, lonely, and overwhelmed weighing you down?

Do words like shame, doubt, anxiety, and heartbreak hover overhead like a dark cloud?

In the heaviness of life, it’s easy to forget that Jesus promises us his uplifting peace and presence no matter what we are facing. We wonder sometimes if life with Jesus can really be different.

Is it possible to live peacefully, bravely, even lightheartedly in this stressful world?

2 Peter 1: 3-4 reminds us that it is.

“His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. By these he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire.”

I have been studying and writing about the Bible ONE WORD AT A TIME for years, and I still love doing that. Every word that God gave us to teach us about himself is relevant and life-giving and oh, so powerful.

Words can help us connect with Jesus in our hardest times, our best days, and our ordinary moments.

Words can make us feel excited about our relationship with him again.

And in this passage, Peter reminds us that Jesus has given us everything we need. His great and precious promises are our tickets to an abundant, lighthearted life.

even When the answers are hard to find.

even When the goodbyes break our hearts.

even When it feels like we haven’t had a break in forever.

Jesus comes especially close in the hardest times—all we have to do is invite him in.

Let’s take him at his Word.

Let’s believe that his great and precious promises are FOR US NOW and FOREVER.

Jesus wants to lighten our loads and lift up our hearts. Let’s live–LIGHTHEARTED–with HIM.

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