Sio Kwangu.

Hello:)

Allow me please, but most of the words I'll use today are not my own..Today, I found myself singing this song, and really, everytime I sing it something quite heavy builds up in my heart..

Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth,
would care to know my name
would care to feel my hurt?
Who am I that the bright and morning star,
would choose to light the way for my ever wandering heart?

I don't know how you feel when you consider that the Lord of all the earth knows all your names, all your thoughts, the number of hairs on your head.........It's too amazing! It's so humbling, and it makes me realise just how special I am, no matter what the world may think of me.There is the only one who matters, up in heaven, and He is concerned about every single thing about me.
But what about me?
Am I really deserving of all that love and honour?
As I was singing this song I found myself placing myself in God's position and I figured just how hurt I'd be if I were God..Being so concerned about someone who many times forgets about me, doesn't bother to talk to me.....you know.
My ever wandering heart, is still cared for, is still considered..the sun, under His command, still lights up the way for me in that I still rise up each day and go about my business..

Verse 2:
Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin,
would look on me with love and watch me rise again?
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea,
would call out through the rain and calm the storm in me?

He sees my sin, but He still love me..
Really, this kind off love is beyond compare.

The chorus says:
I am a flower quickly fading,
here today and gone tomorrow,
a wave tossed in the ocean,
vapour in the wind,
still you hear me when I'm calling
Lord you catch me when I'm falling
And you told me who I am
I am Yours!

Sigh!Doesn't it give you such relief to know that you are His anyway..no matter what?!
Pause, I'll get back to that....

I'm a flower quickly fading, here today and gone tomorrow;
A few days ago, my great childhood friends lost their Mum over sudden illness.Being there for them, seeing them doing their best to stay strong, hearing them speak of their Mum now in the past tense and also recalling how she was such a lovely and sweet woman, brings tears to my eyes..And it reminds me that life is not forever, our forever is in heaven.It brings that spark within me to get up everyday, be grateful to my Father and give my all to pleasing Him through all I do.
My condolences to the family.Goodbye Mum Stella, we'll miss you.
Tutaonana tena!(we'll meet again)

Isaiah 1:18: “Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
You are His my dear..and he loves you despite your battle with lust, alcoholism, hatred, you name it.He's willing to take it up from where you stopped, so let Him do it.What Jesus did on the cross was so great, and He's not even done yet..

Bridge:
Not because of who I am
But because ofwhat you've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who you are

It's ALL because of Him!

Titus 3:5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.

And remember, you are not too bad to be loved by Him..
Psalms 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

In Swahili, we say, 'Sio Kwangu..Ila ni kwake Yesu'.

Blessings!
Love,
Laura.