Dust Meets Deity

03/19/2026

Comfort has a way of becoming the goal without us even realizing it. It keeps life predictable, keeps us insulated from disruption, keeps us from having to look too closely at what’s actually going on beneath the surface. It asks very little, which is part of why it’s so appealing. You can build an entire life around avoiding discomfort and call it peace.

But freedom is something else entirely.

It tells the truth about us, even when we’d prefer to keep things vague. It presses into the places we’ve learned to avoid, exposes what we’ve learned to hide, and invites us into a kind of honesty that can feel unsettling at first. Jesus connects freedom to truth, and that kind of freedom doesn’t come from staying in control or keeping things manageable. It comes from stepping into reality with God, even when that reality stretches us.

If I’m honest, there’s sometimes a real pull in me toward what’s easy, familiar, and within my control. And there’s another part that knows I wasn’t made to live there. You can feel it when your life starts to feel smaller, even if everything on the outside looks fine.

I’m starting to wonder how much of what we call peace is actually just the absence of anything that might challenge us. How much of what we call stability is just familiarity we’ve learned to accept.

Jesus seems far less interested in keeping us comfortable than in making us whole.

And wholeness often takes us places we wouldn’t have chosen on our own.

So I keep coming back to this question:

Where have I chosen comfort when freedom is being offered instead?

01/09/2026

"Every time I read the Gospels, I’m struck by how much of Jesus’ ministry was just paying attention to people everyone else overlooked.

That might still be the most radical thing a Christian can do."

— Beau Stricker

01/06/2026

Your will, Lord.

Nothing more. Nothing less. Nothing else.

01/01/2026

Praying that this is our GREATEST year of knowing Jesus and making him known!

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12/30/2025

If you listen to the serpent long enough, he’ll eventually begin to make sense.

12/28/2025

Remember why you burn!! 🔥🔥🔥

“I heard the Holy Spirit say, “Go back to the moment that marked you.”

Go back to the moment you gave Him your unconditional yes.

There was a moment when your life was no longer your own.

A moment when purpose became clear- not because everything made sense, but because you recognized truth.

A moment when eternity brushed your spirit and everything inside you whispered, “this is why I was made.”

You didn’t have answers.

You didn’t have a map.

You didn’t have certainty.

But you had surrender.

That yes was not loud, it was sacred.

It was whispered through tears, through awe, through trembling trust.

It was the moment you said yes before you knew where it would lead or what it would cost.

That yes was not casual.

It was covenant.

Remember the moment you stopped negotiating and started surrendering.

Remember the hour when your dreams bowed to His will.

Remember the place where you laid your future on the altar and trusted God to define it.

You were not marked by emotion, you were marked by assignment.

You were not changed by hype, you were changed by encounter.

And in that moment, something eternal was set in motion.

Go back to the place where your purpose came into focus.

Go back to when you knew why you were created, even if you didn’t know how it would unfold.

Go back to the clarity before life added noise, pressure, and expectations.

You were not responding to pressure, you were responding to presence.

Something holy settled on you.

Something eternal took root.

And you knew, deep in your soul, that you would never belong to yourself again.

Go back to that place.

Go back to the night you wept under the weight of His goodness.

Go back to the moment when God didn’t just call you, He claimed you.

The Spirit says, “Your yes still echoes in heaven.”

Time has not diluted it.

Delay has not cancelled it.

Seasons have not overwritten it.

What you surrendered then is still the foundation of what God is building now.

Return to the simplicity of that yes.

Return to the posture of trust.

Return to the place where obedience was instinct, not debate.

That yes aligned you with heaven.

That yes positioned you for purpose.

That yes unlocked assignments you have not yet seen.

The Lord says, “I am not calling you to strive harder, am calling you to remember deeper.”

Remember why you burn.

Remember why you intercede.

Remember why you cannot fully belong anywhere else.

You were never confused about your purpose, you were called, and then life got loud.

Now the Spirit is quieting the noise and reawakening the moment of surrender.

Go back, not to relive the past, but to re-anchor your future.

Go back to the unconditional yes.

Go back to the sacred exchange where you said, “All of me for all of You.”

Because purpose is not rediscovered by effort, it is remembered through surrender.

And as you return to that yes, God will breathe fresh clarity, fresh fire, and fresh resolve into it.

What began in surrender will advance in power.

-Jessica Jecker Simply Jecker

12/23/2025

You’ve been out on your own
Now it’s time to come home

Just run to Jesus 🥹❤️‍🩹

12/21/2025

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