It’s Friday, but Sunday is coming!

In one of the most well known Resurrection sermons that has spoken powerfully through generations, S.M. Lockridge said, “It is Friday, but Sunday is coming.” Just say that, over and over.

 

The deepness of this truth began to sink in the way Easter never has and what the resurrection represents so strongly. If the day that Jesus died was called good, then maybe, just maybe, our worst days will be called good too.

 

How many of us are in a “Friday” season? How many people see death knocking at our door? How many have families falling into pieces with no restoration in sight? How many have addiction seeping into every crevice of strength that was once there? How many have less hope today, in your “Friday” than they’ve ever known before?

 

I got to reminiscing over our lives and our position. How many “Friday” seasons did we go through to get to our Sunday. How many sleepless nights did we lay up wondering “God, where are you?” And the big question is: How many Friday’s did we go through thinking that we’d never see Sunday?

 

Because on that cross, as our sins flooded Christ in a moments time with pure agony, Sunday was right around the corner. Whole and healed like never before. He was set free, and so were we!

 

I was overwhelmed today thinking about His graces and how precious that He is to come down, to meet us where we are no matter how dirty and broken we are, and to create the most incredible- life changing Sunday that we’ve ever seen or could have dreamed over our lives.

 

You know God never said that life would be easy, but He did promise that He would never leave nor forsake us. He did promise us that Sunday. He called us by name and He made us the apple of His eye.

 

This Easter, we were able to celebrate and praise on Sunday and to know that He has brought us out of that Friday. He humiliated hell and died on a cross so that we could live on and celebrate freedom.

 

We know that “Friday’s” will come, but the best part is trusting in His promise of Sunday being right around the corner. It will hit us like a ton of bricks and wash over us. He will set our feet on solid ground into a life that only He could have created. And one day, we will look back and feel the vastness of his love over us, his children. There is no greater love than this. The majesty and power of that is golden.

 

C. Elizabeth

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The McLeod's

Welcome to our blog! We’re glad you stopped by and we hope you come back and visit. We want you to be a part of our journey! We are John and Chelsea McLeod. Best friends who are embracing the most precious gift of marriage and life. On the way to be full time missionaries and currently living a life mentoring those broken by addiction from both sides of the pain- loved ones and those struggling with addiction. Here you will find our recorded histories of life, love, struggles, and the journeys that encompass our wanderlust spirits all with an unfailing love for God and His ever so perfect redemption and grace over our lives. Here lies a safe place where our minds wander off into the deepest places with documentation to never be erased. We don’t want our memories to fall between the cracks somewhere, so we write. We don’t want to forget how far God has brought us, so we make records that will prayerfully live on for generations and give others hope who have lost theirs. We met in the most divine of appointments thousands of miles apart that only God could orchestrate. Had our first date watching a fiery sunset go down over the Georgia coast, and ultimately fell in love over kindred spirits that beat for where and what God passionately filled our hearts with. Hindsight, and years later, we can see that God had big plans all along that we couldn’t see. Through our broken pasts, He was preparing us for each other and a future of redemption and testimony. {{{{Everyone has a story and this is ours:}}}}} He’s a Georgia boy, she’s a Carolina girl. ----Hi, I’m Chelsea!---- I’m a native Carolina girl who loves to explore anywhere I’ve never been. An old soul and an extroverted-introvert with a deep heart that overflows with passion and a hunger for God to use me to change this world for the better. Mysterious and meek to the eye, and particularly passionate for the very things that set my heart on fire, especially the things and people that my heart beats for. I get filled up in the untouched outdoors where I can always see and feel His splendor. I am a Master cosmetologist by trade with a BA in Social Work and Counseling. These which intermix daily. I absolutely love the career that God has placed me in and daily, it allows me to love on people all around me. If I can make one person smile a day, my heart holds a fullness that keeps me coming back for more. I believe in forgiveness and miracles because I’ve witnessed them both. I don’t want my life to be about what I accomplished but what God accomplished through me. To me, I’ve learned that in life there is good and bad, right and wrong, excuses and no excuses. But alongside of these very things is engulfed with a ton of grace, growth, and redemption. I don’t ever want to pay the cost of not following my heart, by spending the rest of my life wishing I had. ----Hi, I’m John!---- I’m a born and bred Georgia boy where my blood runs strong with salt water. I was born and raised on the coast where everything I did was engulfed with water and the outdoors. I’m a bold soul with a gentle spirit who loves to help others in any way that I can to believe in themselves and God’s plan over their lives. By trade I hold the title of professional hunter and fisher with a 100 ton captain’s license. What started in Georgia took me out to Alaska where I found my career there, then south Florida and the open blue water. I’ve seen a lot and experienced a lot of God’s beauty and I will be forever grateful for that. Today I’ve taken on the title of “Fisher of men.” After enduring a wearisome season of addiction, God called me to use my pain to help others in addiction ministry and it has become one of the greatest joys of my life. It’s what I live for in showing people they can overcome something that most think they can’t. Offering hope where there is none. Testifying that something they always thought they would be, is only a season that God is ready and wants to use. Where Chelsea serves alongside me pouring into the loved ones. It’s where my passion is, it’s where we love to help others find freedom the same way we did. Today, Chelsea and I are grateful for our struggles because we know that what the enemy meant for evil, God used for good. Here we will write and share. Not to glorify us, but to glorify Him and what He is doing in our lives. The magnificent ways that He is moving and the unfathomable circumstances that He has and will bless us with. All glory goes to Him. We hope you enjoy!!

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