God is at work in each of us.

Do you know the feeling? When you look into someones face and just feel so moved to joy that you sense your very heart rejoicing. Have you looked into the pain on someones face and been moved to tears? God is at work in you. He never stops being with you. Have you ever felt so lost and broken the emptiness in your heart seemed like death? God is there with you.

"Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I." Isaiah 58:9 NIV

I recall as my journey with God to a personal relationship began pouring out "all I was" to him. Confessing the truth of my life. The good, the bad and the ugly I poured out to him.As the Holy Spirit reminded my of the sacrifice of Jesus and his Father had done for me I realized the lies I had listened to for years where a lie. God does love me! God has forgiven me! I knew I had love in me because I loved others, but could not love myself. I cried for help and God answered.

I found out God knew all about me. Every detail came back to me as I talked to him and I cried to him filled with shame and remorse. Still, he loved me. A prodigal son, a lost lamb was ready to come home. But God let me know I had some growing to do. God uses many "sources" to show his children the pathway. I asked in prayer "How Father do I come to know you?" God spoke to my heart and told me to read the Bible and study." To know the Father you must know the Son". Everyday my hunger to know God better grew and grew.

¹⁴ “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— ¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father —and I lay down my life for the sheep. John 10:13-15 NIV

¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:12-14