Anything Can Be Redeemed

After my week at CIY Move, I can not stop smiling. It was amazing to see God doing such amazing work. It made me happy to see my friends and I worshiping with reckless abandon. I loved it how we just gave God our all, and how our lives changed. 

But, one thing that we all need to remember is this: we may be on fire now because of our amazing week, but we need to work hard and stay faithful to God in order for the changes we made to stay in our lives. We have to keep each other accountable and pray with all we've got. The things of this world and the devil will try his best to bring us down. But, our victory in Jesus says that he has no grip on us and our lives. 

"Things will happen. Time will change. But, Your love remains." 

These lyrics are so full of truth. No matter what life throws our way, God will never love us any more or any less. That is probably the greatest thing that I learned this week. 

Now, one of the speakers, Michael DeFazio, spoke some words of truth straight from God. The title of one of his messages was, "Anything Can Be Redeemed." It really got to me. After he finished speaking, I went back to my dorm and thought about what he said. 

Anything can be redeemed. 

That's the beautiful thing about God, and how He works. 

Even though it can be hard to understand what God is doing, trust Him anyways. 

Even though we may feel like God isn't faithful, He still is anyways. 

Life isn't always going to go like you expect it to go. 

Nothing can happen to you, that God can't redeem. 

Disasters happen. 

Tragedies happen. 

The words, "anything/everything happens for a reason," are inaccurate. 

No matter what happens in between, the story is going to reach the conclusion that God designed it to reach. 

Anything can be redeemed. 

So, no matter what happens, and no matter where we all end up, we will always remember our amazing week at CIY Move. We all made some big decisions for Jesus, and I pray that we all stick to the decisions that we made.