Love is a Hurricane

"He is jealous for me; love's like a hurricane, I am a tree: bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy".

His love is a hurricane.
Hurricane's are destructive.
His love is destructive.

I'm was thinking today, with my good friend Uriah and he pointed something out to me.
"When you've been through a hurricane, everything: EVERYTHING, is a mess; however, you have to start somewhere. Might as well keep cleaning a littler here, and a little there, because, the truth is, you're not going to get everything together in one day".

This is the truth.

God swept through my life in a hurricane filled with destruction, love, and mercy.
He took, in a single day, every material thing I had taken from God. He took a valued relationship and friendship, a car, and all of my money.
That is love. Especially if those things were in "my" possession. It was mercy that kept me from harm in doing all those things and mercy showing me the error of my ways and not allowing me to stay the way I was. Instead, He chose to destroy me, to show me how much He loves me. He destroyed because He loves me.

I need to clean up the mess left from the hurricane of Gods love and mercy. Something has always feel off this week, no matter what, and I realized what it is: I'm dirty from the hurricane still. I can't sleep perfectly well in a dirty room, in the same way, my life is a jumbled mess and I can't rest knowing its still jacked up.

In the same way, I cannot have all of this fixed in one hour, day, or week. Its going to be a process. I'll have to start somewhere, though. I cannot sit here and pray all this crap away. I need to clean up my mess. Because, if it had a strong foundation, what would love had destroyed? Nothing. Love wouldn't destroy love. I need to start somewhere, and continue.

"Search me, oh God, and know my anxious thoughts; see if there be any imperfect way in me, and lead me in the way of the everlasting. I love You, God. You love me. Thank You for loving me and having mercy on me in the way You sent destruction my way. I needed it. Give me the grace to continue as I always have, in You, and the grace to clean up the mess that is myself. I love You. Jesus, save me.

In Your Sons amazingly loving name: amen"

Love Always,
-Josh

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