Love Songs From God

This year has been a really tough one.
Not the toughest -- 2023 still holds that title, with 2024 as a close second.

This year probably comes right after that. 

My mum, who has walked beside Nick and me every step of the way this year, knowing our struggles, shared this song with us to give us hope. It's called "Keep Holding On" by Jeremy Rosado. 

I don't know if I can adequately describe what it did for me, but let me try...

This song turned my life around.

From the first time I listened to it, it felt like a song written for me and for everything I was feeling.

It felt like finally, finally, God had heard my prayers. 

And sent an angel to tell me not just that, but to tell me that HE knows.

He knows how much I've been struggling. That he knows how hard it's been. 

That he hasn't forgotten about me. That he still loves me... so much. 

That God is working. That God just wants me to have hope. 

To JUST... keep... holding... on. 

I started to listen to that song each time I felt hopeless. Each time I felt like giving up.

And each time it made me weep, and picked me back up. Gave me hope.

Keep Holding On

I know you're tired of holding the weight

Can't keep your head above the water, drowning in your shame

I won't pretend to know how it feels

But don't you forget you know the God who loves to heal

Keep holding on, it's never too late

Miracles happen when you call upon His name

He's done it before, He'll do it again

And right now, I'm begging you to give it one more chance

What if I told you that the story's just begun?

Keep holding on.

He knows your heart, holds every piece

All of the broken isn't your identity

You are still loved, His masterpiece

Just wait and see He'll be redeeming everything

Keep holding on, it's never too late

Miracles happen when you call upon His name

He's done it before, He'll do it again

And right now, I'm begging you to give it one more chance

What if I told you that the story's just begun?

Keep holding on.

*Deep Sigh*

I'm listening to it right now as I type this and it still has the same effect, each time I listen to it. It's now part of my morning routine, it's what I start my day with.

He knows my heart and holds every piece? That "shocks and awes" me at the same time because yes,  of course he does, he made it. And even when it breaks (and it does, often... *sigh*), he's holding it so tenderly until it heals again. Even though each time it doesn't feel like it could heal again, I gotta know that it does because he's done it before and he'll do it again. 

I started listening to his other songs and one by one, they touched my heart and some took my breath away. I can only describe them as the most beautiful love songs about God.

My 2nd favorite song is called "Nothing".

I well up with tears each time I listen to this because it reminds me of how faithful and unconditional God's love is for us, and I feel so unworthy of such a love at times because I'm just me, plain ol' me, one among billions and yet God knows ME, and loves ME. It's baffling and overwhelming and so amazing!

My favorite part of the song:

What could pull me from Your loving arms?

What could separate me from Your heart?

There's nothing, there's nothing. 

There's nothing I've been through

There's nothing I can do 

That could keep me from You

That could break us apart

That could make You regret Your scars

There's nothing, there's NOTHING.

How AMAZING is that?

To be loved so deeply and greatly, I can't even fathom it but yet it's there. We have it.

What a wonderful and remarkable gift!!!

I am always amazed by God's love for us. 

And I am stunned and overwhelmed at how beautifully Jeremy Rosado has captured that in his songs. 

In Great Is Your Faithfulness:

What if the stories are all true?

What if there's nothing You won't do?

That You'd really leave the ninety-nine to save a life as lost as mine?

And what if You're who You say You are

And You can be trustеd with my heart

Then wouldn't I rest on Your promisеs?

'Cause if all the stories are true, then how great is Your faithfulness

That line gets me every time.

My heart has always been my most precious possession to me.

Because I believe no one else could have given me a heart like this other than God. 

And to think that there is one person I can trust with it, to never ever hurt it, to keep it as precious as it is to me, if not more -- that just takes my breath away. 

Hero In The Room

The people I loved the most didn't protect me 

from the lies that were spoken

But there in that moment I knew

I had a Hero in the room

Telling me the truth

That I'm good еnough

Oh, how You'd fight for me

Standin' in between

The еnemy and me

I might be bruised

But I'm alive because I had a Hero in the room

Since I was young, I believed the things people told me and well, the things I told myself too about why my heart was the way it was and all the things that were wrong with it. But as time passed, God showed me the truth in every situation he presented to me to use that same heart to help, to be kind, to love. 

Even today, I still doubt myself at times but this song reminds me that no matter what situation or "room" I'm in, my God is there telling me to trust the heart he gave me and we won't go wrong. 

Honestly if I keep going I am going to go through the whole album -- it is just THAT GREAT! So, if anyone finds this post and is inspired by it, please go check out the album. 

I'll close this off with one more favorite: 

When I meet Jesus

All my worries and my fears will fade away

When He calls my name

When I meet Jesus

I'll be home and there to stay when He tells me

"Well done, My good and faithful servant

You are loved, you were worth it"

When I meet Jesus

 

*Overwhelmed Sigh*

Can you imagine that? Meeting Jesus finally, some day? And... he calls... my name. 

And tells me... I was worth it. 

There are no words to describe what a complete and perfect moment that would be.

All I can do is live my life the way I think he wants me to, to use the heart he gave me, to love the way he taught me to... and do my best... until that moment comes 💖

Signing off now -- overwhelmed, grateful and loved. ✨