Hello from Forever Ago

Welcome back to blogging Emily! I can barely believe it's been so long since I've been motivated to write last. Hopefully my post will be good enough to make up for it. ;)

Up and down, up and down, up, and down again. That is how my life has felt as of lately. Sometimes I'm at a total peace with my life, and other times all I want to go do is cry and cry. These last few months have been a trying few months, and I've long since figured out being a Christian isn't always easy. Some days I feel so close to Jesus, and other days it feels like He's a million miles away.

It was one if these million-miles-away days God decided to hit me with something. I have been reading the book of Nehemiah in my Bible lately, and to tell the truth I have found it extremely boring and dull. There are so many names and description about every single bolt in the wall, I wonder why God even put it in the Bible in the first place. All I knew is that I didn't feel like I was learning anything from it at all. So a couple weeks ago when I drudgenly opened my Bible to read, that was when God decided to teach me something. The people of Judah were constantly under hardship and persecution when rebuilding the wall for their city. But even so, instead of giving into depair and giving up, the people perservered. Instead of becoming down with all the junk, God actually made them stronger and more encouraged than when they first begun. It was as if God was telling me that it even though the book of Nehemiah seemed long and boring, to keep on perservering through it, because He still had things to teach me. God always has something to teach us, it's just up to us to open our hearts and listen.

-Emily