Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Thursday 3/12/09)

Hebrews 4:13-16 (Amplified Bible)

¹³⁾ And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, naked and defenseless to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.

    ¹⁴⁾ Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him].

    ¹⁵⁾ For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

    ¹⁶⁾ Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].

     I have a friend that seems to be in a very different place in her life.  It is hard for others to understand and as I listened to her, I believe it is difficult for her as well.  As God transitions her life into a new places and into new relationships, things that were familiar and the way business was done as usual does not exist anymore.  In a strange way there is a brokenness because of the lack of acceptance by others, it is a brokenness that I recognized and related to well. I knew that pain of feeling like the outcast and the odd man out, the square peg trying to fit into that round hole.  Even now the awkwardness that often comes with being who God created me to be keeps me broken before Him, reliant upon Him.  

    Before I knew God the way I do now I use to try to mold myself to what people wanted me to be, much to my demise and much to my destruction.  I use to try to put on a hard exterior, and swallow the pain that came with being different. I found myself even trying to hide my brokenness within the confines of ministry and the church, even within my worship towards the one who knows me best, God himself. I would find myself fighting not to cry and offer up all of my pain and every thing that was broken and that needed healing within me.  But the one thing I did not consider is God knows everything and sees all things inside of me and outside of me any way and that my pain and my need for healing was not hid from Him, but I also needed to realize that God would not mend my brokenness if I would not give it to Him.  The choice was mine, not His. For so many of us, we are screaming on the inside for relief from the pain but we have not given it to God yet, we have not said Lord this is yours to fix, not mine to bare.  We are hiding the pieces of our broken lives, relationships, ministries, jobs, families, etc.  God is waiting to fix it put we are only handing him a few pieces of the whole instead of the wholes shattered mess.

     God is a good God and He love us so much.  He wants to see us whole healed and delivered, but there is something we must do, we have to give Him all of the piece of our brokenness.  It does not matter whether shattered into fragments or broken into large pieces God can heal, He can deliver, He can mend our brokenness, He can fix everything in need of fixing and right every wrong.  Only if we will let Him!