Larry Said: There’s Lu, with her “drama queen” antics and great swings. Read one post and you know she’s alive.

Larry, you could never have known how much of a blessing it was to read that about myself! It is one of the major goals of my life, one that I daily pray for and remind myself that God has promised it to me.

Six years ago I reached a breaking point in my life. I had tried and tried to live “the adventure” but continually found myself back where I started. What was I doing wrong? Why couldn’t I seem to join this revolution everyone at Mosaic kept talking about? Why couldn’t I become one of those Jonathan-type people, the ones that could seize their divine moments that Erwin was always talking about?

One afternoon in my office, I begged God to say something. Give me some word of wisdom, even just a nugget, that I could grasp hold of. My hope was slipping quickly from my grasp and I needed more “rope” to grab. I told Him I’d run out of ideas how to become the person I longed to be….

He led me here.

Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ (verse 11)

That was me. I didn’t understand why God led me to a passage that perfectly described me…. until I read:
This is what the Sovereign LORD says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the LORD , when I open your graves and bring you up from them. I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and I have done it, declares the LORD .’ “

That became my New Year’s wish for 1999…. and the desire for my life. That I would live truly, fully live and know, beyond doubt, that it was God’s doing, not my own.

So, you see, Larry. God has truly answered my prayer. He did it in ’99, and again in 2000…. and now, He does it so powerfully and completely that even you can see it.

And every day I marvel at His promise… and His grace… and His faithfulness to fulfill all His promises.

For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. — 2 Cor. 2:20