“Well in many cases, we know what we know and that’s just it”- Heather Golden.

In a week full of consultations to gain knowledge for journeys both expected and unexpected, I realized the magnitude of all that I didn’t know. The weight of the “unknown” began to grow rather burdensome the deeper I progressed during these appointments. Appointments varying from life post-graduation and what to expect when applying for career-oriented jobs to side-effects of choices made. It’s all become one big blur as of lately, and I’ve found myself challenged by every word prior to this moment. I’ve found myself tested at the settling of one day into the dawning of another. Tried to see if the truths I’ve shared would still ring as being just once hitting rock bottom.

“Well in many cases, we know what we know and that’s just it” after writing “Push it to the limit” last week I’ve been fumbling around with my logic, attempting to secure what it is I know. Yet, somehow everything I know to be true is found within my spirit, truths such as: I am a firm believer that we can overcome through any situation. I am a firm believer in Jesus Christ, and though faith is sometimes a weary deed there are promises and reassurances that I chose to cling to.

A Promise that Jesus intercedes for me day in and day out, he is far more than able to intervene on my behalf, and consequently ensured to save. Securing this truth it is written, “Therefore he is able, once and forever, to save those who come to God through him. He lives forever to intercede with God on their behalf.” – Hebrews 7:25. Therefore in moments when I find I can’t pray for myself, there he is praying for me, providing the ultimate covering.

A promise that I am never alone, regardless of who externally understands the depth of what it is I may or may not be facing. The highs of my success, and the low blows of my failures, for this truth is also written; “I can never escape from your spirit! I can never get away from your presence… I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night –but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you”-Psalms 139:7-12 meaning there is no terror, no sin, no disappointment that is too dark for God to not father me through.

A favorite promise of mine is that even in moments of great condemnation God is bigger than our hearts, our guilt, and any other emotion that would suggest such for its written “If our hearts condemn us we know that God is greater than our hearts and he knows everything”- 1 John 3:20. “He knows everything” and still chooses not to let us remain alone. For his grace (divine enablement to allow the inferior to become superior) is always abounding meaning we don’t have to remain enslaved to our sinful decisions, disappointment, guilt or shame.

There’s provision for us to become made whole, and lastly a promise Paul made within himself as it is written in Philippians 3:7-14 “… I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own … but that which is through faith in Christ –the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith… Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and Sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind meandstrainingtoward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus”.

Never easy but always necessary may you “strain” forward, may you gain traction with each decision to live by what it is that you know, and may you find yourself being filled with the immense, unmeasurable love of Father God.

For on the other side of emptiness is a promise to be made whole.