Just given this word.....

Isaiah 25 NIV


Praise to the LORD

1 O LORD, you are my God;

I will exalt you and praise your name,

for in perfect faithfulness


you have done marvelous things,


things planned long ago.

2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,

the fortified town a ruin,

the foreigners' stronghold a city no more;

it will never be rebuilt.



3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;

cities of ruthless nations will revere you.



4 You have been a refuge for the poor,


a refuge for the needy in his distress,


a shelter from the storm


and a shade from the heat.

For the breath of the ruthless

is like a storm driving against a wall



5 and like the heat of the desert.

You silence the uproar of foreigners;

as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,

so the song of the ruthless is stilled.



6 On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare

a feast of rich food for all peoples,

a banquet of aged wine—

the best of meats and the finest of wines.



7 On this mountain he will destroy

the shroud that enfolds all peoples,

the sheet that covers all nations;



8 he will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears


from all faces;

he will remove the disgrace of his people

from all the earth.

The LORD has spoken.



9 In that day they will say,

"Surely this is our God;

we trusted in him, and he saved us.

This is the LORD, we trusted in him;

let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."



10 The hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain;

but Moab will be trampled under him

as straw is trampled down in the manure.



11 They will spread out their hands in it,

as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim.

God will bring down their pride

despite the cleverness [a] of their hands.



12 He will bring down your high fortified walls

and lay them low;

he will bring them down to the ground,

to the very dust.

My spirit has been grieving all through the night and this morning.  I came home from work early pulled out my Bible with full intentions of reading Ephesians.  I did one of those "let the pages fall open" tricks and this is the passage it opened to.  What a promise that God will wipe away the tears from our faces.

Profound Thoughts

God really does buy back our messes, and He buys them back whether we have blown it or whether it is someone else who has messed up our lives. –Jan Silvious (The 5-Minute Devotional)

Fear

Fear is a powerful motivator after everything that I've been through.  I can be having a wonderful day and fear creeps in. I am in a happy, healthy relationship now but the reality is that fear lingers in the background of everything I do with him even.   That demon that no matter how many times I tell him he has no authority creeps back in and whispers to me how worthless I am and how no one can love the mess that I've become. That stupid ole demon makes me overanalyze everything the people who love me say to me.   I told my best friend recently, "I can fight him on the good days on the bad days he keeps me awake at night listening to his lies." Sometimes it's so hard to silence him.  Counseling can only get you so far.  It's the daily battles we fight for our lives in. 
What does that demon on your shoulder whisper to you? How do you silence him?