Ahhh! It has been almost 2 years since I have blogged. My previous blog was amberbeaty.blogspot.com, so when I got the itch to begin blogging again, an obvious change needed to take place :) I gave up blogging during that time because the changes that were occurring were too deep for me to even find words. It took my spirit awhile to take it all in, let it settle, and to let myself BE the changes God made in me. The last 2 years have been without a doubt the two most important, vital, and life changing years that I have ever experienced. This is true in my spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial life. I think it is fair to say that not one aspect of my life is the same. God has turned my life upside down. Literally, in the last year everything has changed. These changes might not be tangible to the outside world, or to those who aren't aware of the inner workings of my heart... but my soul is different.
I am different.
I always believed that God was who He said that He was. I always believed that His Words were true. I clung tightly to His promises, holding on for dear life, for years while those promises waned. Would restoration ever come? Would God really make an orphan into a daughter? Would God really take a scared little girl and make her into a confident, called woman of God who could stand strong in who she was created to be? Would God really give her the desires of her heart? Would God really heal the deep wounds that followed her wherever she went?
Yes. He would. He did. He is absolutely who He says He is.
Year one was the hardest year of my life. Depression. Fear. Rejection. Abandonmant... God was working it all out of me! IT HURT! A lot of you have been with me on my journey of inner healing. You've seen the back and forth. You've celebrated with me in my victories and wept with me in my struggle. We have rejoiced and mourned together in both the victories of my heart, and the places of my heart that were so desperately barren. Thank you. Year two has been MY year. The work is finished. The hurt is gone. The pain is over. My Lord said it best in Song of Solomon, "See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come..." This is the me I was created to be.
Thus the name of the blog, "Something New". For I am not the same. Nor will I ever be. I have spoken the verse Joel 2:25 "...and then He will make up to you for the years the locusts have eaten" over my life every day since the first day I read it. I am here. I am in my season of redeeming the years that were stolen. This is my season. Everyday I am literally watching God give me back things that were stolen from me. Hallelujah, to the Uncreated One!
This is simply an introduction! In the next few blogs I plan on touching on a lot of the works He did specifically. The process is entirely too miraculous to leave anything out :)
