"Whether rain or flood, you get cleansed..."

What are all these voices around me? Like a flood over the world, I am immersed into the waves of one voice after another. I'm familiar with it's hurricanes, the storms, it's sprinkles and the flooding. Still none of these words serve as a life-saver for me. Sometimes they take me down, thrashing me from rock to hard places. Sometimes they latch as weights to my feet, too many voices, I sink. I'm tired of just keeping my head above water.
Weary.
Tired.
Tidal waves wipe me out.
I didn't know anything else until just one voice spoke, and others were silenced. Silence. Peace. His voice was not harsh, but gentle. I felt dry land beneath me. Finally I looked up and the sea of words were divided to walls on my side. The experience of Moses at the Red Sea was very real to me in that moment. Still silent to a hum, one voice was clearer,

"Yolanda. Take My hand. I will guide you to dry land. I remind you that my foundations are strong. Places I guide you will be to the valleys of peace. Take my life, let me pull your feet from the bonding clay".

So silent, but so strong. I didn't know I could hear anything so simple, so loving, so clear and so warm. My "Yes" brought me to become overwhelmed by warmth growing from within, the Lord spoke,

"This is my Holy Spirit poured into you through the love of what My Son, Jesus Christ, has done for you..."

Like sunlight streaming over the sleeping lands, he walked through my life to the very heart of me. His hand, healing the broken pieces. His voice, honey to my lips. His song, refreshing water to my bones. It hurt, for him to lift me up from this miry clay, but there I stood before Him.
Jesus. A breath away.

"Here. Take this, it will help you. I have breathed the words to be, by taking it, my voice will be more clearer in this world".

His Word, my surfboard, I held it by my side. He led me. Before me, dry land. Behind me, the voices fell and rushed to every inch. Despite the voices at my feet and it's efforts to pull me out into the sea, His arms kept 'round me tighter 'til my feet met dry land.
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"The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you. He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing" Zephaniah 3.17
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