My husband gives me the best greeting cards. He has a gift for picking the perfect card with the most beautiful words and heartfelt sentiment. I can just picture him in the store reading 5 or 6 cards before he finds the "perfect" one. They truly make me feel special. So, needless to say, I keep all the cards stored nicely in a decorative hat box.
I know most people keep them displayed for all to see for a short while and then toss them in the trash, because eventually the card in a sense becomes useless to keep around. I, however, have a reason for tucking my cards away.
Life happens and we get lonely; we have struggles in our marriages and relationships; challenges with our health or finances and we allow those few bad moments to define our lives and we begin to lose hope and begin to let love die. Love for our spouse, family, friends, work, and in some cases we start not even loving ourselves.
But that's when I go to my hat box and pull out those cards. As I read those beautiful heartfelt words on the page, I'm reminded that I am loved and there is hope. I'm not alone.
Many times we struggle that way in our spiritual life. We feel like God doesn't hear our prayers or that we're fighting our battles alone. Things seem to get worse before they get better. We may even feel like the Lord doesn't even love us. I encourage you to pull out that hat box called the Bible and read those beautiful heartfelt words that the Lord has written for you. Don't let those promises and words become useless and just toss them away. Let Him remind you that you are loved, there is hope and you are not alone.
For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
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