Beneath the juniper…
Resistance
What role do your doubts and accusations play? Do they tend to stall your growth?
Jeremiah 31:20
While God bends heaven (cf. Psalm 18) to restore each of us, God also takes issue with the massive deficits in parents and in society that bring about our suffering. Our tears are not forgotten.
Psalm 27:10
How many things in our lives, small and large, have the grace of God wound about them?
God packs a punch
What are the real-time applications of Psalm 27:10, Isaiah 49:15, and Jeremiah 31:20 for those who have been abused?
Overreactions
Until we learn how to check these triggers as adults, these feelings rushing back in at once can result in our overreacting to what is in actuality a constructive criticism or a simple question.
The question
“Though my father and mother forsake me,
the Lord will receive me.” (Psalm 27:10)
Just how does this reception of us by God apply in practical terms? Oh, this is the question! And its answer lays out for us nothing less than healing, transformation, and a peace beyond understanding (cf. Philippians 4:7).
I am able!
You see, if God is doing the calling, God supplies what we need to answer. The grace is there. Our part is to accept it.
“I’m real and I show up.”
I don’t know why we suffer so much, but I’ve learned that answer can wait. We cannot afford to miss what God can and does do in the midst of our suffering.
Beside the darkness
In what ways do you choose to remain stilled, to sit with an identity that disempowers you?