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Freedom In The Mess

I'm no longer looking back in defeat but rather to see how far God has brought me in life.

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Life is absolutely unpredictable. It's a mess. If you know anything about my story, then you would completely agree. Essentially, everything that I have decided in life, has either been completely shut down in the beginning or has failed eventually, because it wasn't God's plan. It was my plan.

Today and this weekend even, I had an amazing opportunity to spend in fellowship with the Lord and a Christian community. Out of this came the the greatest realizations I've had in my entire life. The dots finally connected, and the bridge from my past to now was finally destroyed.

In other words; I am free from the chains that once bound me. I'm no longer looking back in defeat but rather to see how far God has brought me in life. That doesn't mean that I won't falter, that I won't struggle. It simply means that I am not defined by those things. It means that everything that once brought darkness into my life, was brought to the light and destroyed. God has defeated death. He paid the ultimate price for me and for you to have eternal life. And because of this that is why I am typing with such joy.

Today, everything that I have ever gone through or encountered, finally made sense. Granted God has been working in my life for years, but this academic year He's been working extra hard in the most roundabout of ways. None of it made any sense during the trials, but now that they have passed, I can see what God's plan was all along. He was shaping me into the child of God I am right now, this very minute, and I couldn't be any happier.

This song expresses what this freedom feels like. It's what the grace of God can do.


I found freedom in the mess. We all sin. We all have pasts that we think can never be forgiven, but God sent His only Son, Jesus, to die on the cross to pay our debts, our penalty of death, so that we may have eternal life. (John 3:16).

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