The Truth Is...

God is good. Psalms 119:68 says so. When the sun is shining and you have money in the bank and you’re healthy and everyone thinks you’re wonderful, it’s not hard to believe that God is good. But when you lose your job or a loved one is diagnosed with a terminal illness or your church goes through a nasty split or your husband or wife says he/she doesn’t want to be married to you anymore, the Enemy will move in and cause you to question God’s goodness.

The Truth is, regardless of the circumstances, regardless of what we feel, regardless of what we think, God is good, and everything He does is good.

God’s grace is sufficient for me. 2Corinthians 12:9 says so. As a child of God, I will never face a circumstance that exceeds His grace. Where sin abounds, grace does much more abound. When I am weak, He is strong. When I am empty, He is full. When I have no resources of my own left, His resources have not begun to be depleted.

The Truth is, whatever you are going through right now, His grace is sufficient for you. Whatever you will go through tomorrow – or next year or fifty years from now – His grace will be sufficient for you then.

His grace is sufficient to deal with the memories, wounds, and failures of the most scarred or sordid past. His grace is sufficient for a lifetime of singleness or for a half century of marriage to an ungodly man. His grace is sufficient for the single mother trying to raise four children. His grace is sufficient for the woman caring for her elderly parents, for the empty nester, for the man or woman going through the change of life or midlife crisis, for the widow living on Social Security, and for the invalid in a nursing home.

We need to speak the Truth to ourselves; we need to speak it to each other. In every season, in every circumstance, His grace is sufficient. It is sufficient for me; it is sufficient for you!

The Truth is… I am blessed! It’s my birthday! Thank you oh God for giving me life…

All Is Well

One day before my birthday in 2007, I wrote this poem. I stumbled upon it today and it made me smile. There's this giddiness in my heart that transcends through the eternity of it's deepest abyss. I read it over and over. And while reading, my brain was on multi-task mode, thinking of what I have gone through in such a span of time. Let me now share this poem to you...

ALL IS WELL - Kristin Shimizu

April 30, 2007

My present seems unstable, the future I can’t tell.
The pressures of life toss me to and fro, as if I’m going through hell.
But down, deep in my spirit, I hear a voice saying, "all is well."
Heartaches, despair, and dismay are on the Increase;
War is constant, there seems to be no peace.

Love, joy, happiness, and my finance are on the decrease.
My life seems so short as if it will soon seize.
But down, deep in my spirit I hear a voice saying, “all is well.”
I was on the verge of backsliding, from grace I fell.
Life seems so confusing, I couldn’t add nor spell.

It is said after a storm there is calm.
But in my situation after my storm, tornados,
earthquakes and hurricanes, batter me from side to side.
All of life’s pain, I almost lost my mind,
I was sure I was going insane.

I felt tormented as if I was under a spell.
But I kept hearing the voice saying, “all is well.”

I stop; I pause, eject, rewind, fast forward and play.
But it was if I was dumbstruck, I didn’t know what to say.
I felt absent from GOD, not reading my bible,
No fasting, much less to pray.

I cut and paste, edit, enter then delete.
No money, no supermarket, nothing to eat.
But I kept hearing the voice saying, “all is well.”
My situation seems ever worse; it was dark like midnight.
I felt sad and fearful, I was overwhelmed with fright.
The enemy thought I was defeated; No victory for me in sight.

Then suddenly, I heard a sound!
The abundance of rain.
I felt an outpour of the oil of joy, for all my mourning and pain.
My visions became a reality; my nightmares were out of sight.
My steps were ordered again, the outcome was right.

Yesterday all seems lost, but my tomorrow looks bright.
All this was possible because of The Light.

He is the voice that beckons to you and me, “all is well.”

“All that I brought you through, was for Information to be gained,
and a message to tell.
Go, say to the world, that without Me your all is not well.
I Am The First and The Last, Beginning and The End.
Well done my good and faithful servant
Your all is well.”