Do you ever feel like there is nothing more for your life?
And no hope of anything better after this life is over?
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A friend described what she had been hearing lately.
“Just as I’m drifting off to sleep, I hear a snarl …
‘This is it. This is all there is.
There’s nothing more.
Nothing that comes after this.’
I know it’s not true. But what if it is? I’m scared! I don’t WANT this to be all there is!!”
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One woman prayed, “Lord, show Tammy that nothing can separate her from your love.”
As she prayed that, I remembered one of my favorite scenes from The Sound of Music.
You know when Maria and the children were putting on a puppet show for their dad? And how they held the strings to each puppet way up above the stage?
I saw that just like a puppeteer has strings attached to his creations … the Lord has strings attached to us.
Strings of love.
There is a string of love attached to each part of us. There isn’t even one small part that the Lord doesn’t love and care about.
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So, no matter how dark it may be in your life
even when you can’t SEE the strings
and even when you can’t FEEL the strings
Those strings are still there. Nothing can separate you from them.
Why? Because NOTHING can separate you from His love!
Yes, His love is there. For your life right now. And for when your life is over.
All He has to do is make one little tug on those strings … and you’ll be pulled straight up … into His love forever.
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Take courage, dear heart.
There IS hope for now and there IS hope for later.
Because you are loved.
No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39 NLT)
