{"id":1859,"date":"2020-02-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T14:33:16","slug":"how-to-live-life-in-the-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/26\/how-to-live-life-in-the-deep-end\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO LIVE LIFE IN THE DEEP END"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cDeep calls to deep <\/sup>in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.  By day the Lord directs his love, <\/sup>at night <\/sup>his song <\/sup>is  with me\u2014a prayer to the God of my life\u201d (Psalm 42:7-8 NIV).<\/em><\/strong>
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The only way to live life in the deep end is with God.  Deep calls to deep, heart calls to heart. In this Psalm, David\u2019s heart is crying out to God\u2019s heart.  God\u2019s love is the answer to David\u2019s cry. The deep connection I have with God is in my heart. Our hearts are where God meets us.  When we connect with Him, we\u2019re opening up the corners of our hearts and presenting them to Him. God doesn\u2019t do shallow, He does deep. 
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I chose today\u2019s scripture because of the beauty of the words.  David\u2019s cries are poetic as he openly implores the Lord for help.  The deep connection shared between David and God is easily seen. This morning, as I write this, it\u2019s the sixth anniversary of my mother\u2019s passing, a day I did not think I would survive.  I remember, being on my knees, crying out to God for help. I didn\u2019t know how I would go on without her in my life. But here I am, six years to the day later, He\u2019s carried me all the way.  He answered the deep cry in my heart with His daily love, HIs night song has been with me. God doesn’t do shallow, He does deep.
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God doesn\u2019t do shallow, He does deep.<\/strong>
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If God did shallow, our struggles wouldn\u2019t be so hard.  We wouldn\u2019t have to make the hard choices of what the right thing to do is.  God wouldn\u2019t care. But He does care. He understands how difficult life\u2019s pressures are, He uses those situations to refine us.  Diamonds are made because then endure high temperatures and pressure over a long period of time. God uses our struggles to create diamonds.  When we open our hearts to Him, as we reveal it\u2019s deepest secrets to Him, He refines us.
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When my mother died, God used her death to refine me.\u00a0 I drew closer to Him as the days and weeks passed, allowing Him to be my comforter.\u00a0 He began to show me things about my mother I had never known. I began to understand why she had done some of the things she did which I never understood.\u00a0 I began to see clearly, my Mom was following Him. She was setting an example for me to follow. My Mom wasn\u2019t a big talker, but her actions spoke volumes. As St. Francis of Assisi encouraged us to do: she preached the gospel always, using words only when necessary. \u00a0 I didn\u2019t see it clearly until after she was gone. God doesn\u2019t do shallow, He does deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Question of the Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What in your life is God using to take you deeper with Him?
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Further Reading: <\/strong>Leviticus 19:1-20:21 NIV<\/a>, Mark 8:11-38 NIV<\/a>, Psalm 42:1-11 NIV<\/a>, Proverbs 10:17 NIV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDeep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.  By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is  with me\u2014a prayer to the God of my life\u201d (Psalm 42:7-8 NIV). The only way to live life in the deep end is with God. … Continue reading HOW TO LIVE LIFE IN THE DEEP END<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}