Last week I was laying in bed. I was in tears, going through old pictures on my phone memory. I love the fact that all of my photos are saved in one app from years ago to now, but it’s also become a burden at times. You look back on moments that were frozen in time in a picture and your mind can take you to the exact moment, what you saw, felt, and smelt. You can even remember the conversations that surrounded that moment, whether good or bad. All of that kept at the touch of a finger and in the mind resting upon our shoulders. I’ve mentioned this before in an earlier blog… but those memories can either fill your heart with joy or tear you apart.
How is it that God can take every wrong we’ve ever done, and forget it? Cast it as far as the East is from the West, and never hold it against us.
(Psalms 103:12, ”As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us”.)
The SAME GOD who knows every thought that’s crossed your mind, every moment that left you broken hearted, and each action your physical body has done… that SAME GOD put so much thought into you that He CREATED YOU!! How marvelous and overwhelming a thought! His heart beats for you and longs to take care of you.
My Mom came in my room, saw how broken I was, walked into the other room and came back in with a Bible in her hand. As a child I used to place a Bible under my pillow each night, because it made me feel safe and secure, knowing God’s living and breathing word was watching over me. I fell asleep every night like that for years. So my Mom walked into my room, placed that Bible underneath my pillow, and said one sentence that put my restless heart at ease.
She said, “Your creator made you, so He knows how to take care of you”.
When she walked out I began to sob. Running every moment, person, and memory that had broken this heart through my mind, yet the One who created and loves me, is fully capable of taking care of me when it seems no one will!! He’s taken care of me for almost 22 years. So why would He stop caring for me now, when it seems that in this fleshly body I claim there is no hope of healing? My soul was at rest that night knowing everything will work out as it should because my Father controls it.
I know what it’s like to place your faith in what you hope will be and what man offers. I trusted that my life and body would be well again in a year, after a car accident left my body physically broken. The very vows, friendships, and church “fellowship”, that I had thought worthy to be true and sure to remain when everything else fell apart, only broke my heart to match my broken body. None of the above proved to be trustworthy as I was left alone and betrayed with my body still healing emotionally and physically.
Though it may look on the outside that your life is wonderful and full of happiness, you may go to sleep each night reliving memory after memory that left you feeling the way you do, and wondering what will happen now? How can I be okay or taken care of after all of the hurt and brokenness that fills my heart?
Not you or any other man that walks this earth can take that pain away or make you feel complete. But, there is a God in Heaven who created you, knew from the beginning you would be here, and left a promise that He would take care of you, NO MATTER WHAT.
That promise is found in His word and upon your heart if you’ve accepted His free gift of salvation.
(Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.”)
This world will leave you broken, but He speaks peace over His children in the darkest of hours. Hold onto that promise and never let go.
You are loved with an everlasting love, and knowing that, you will strive to live a life pleasing to the One who loves you. And when this life leaves you feeling hopeless and helpless, rest in His promise.
(Hebrews 13:5, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.")
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