Today’s time with God blessed me so as both devotionals seemed to drive home the same message: What blessing in the storms—what redemption in the rubble—as growth and glory and beauty result from the very things meant to destroy us.
“Part of [the storm] is in me.” Indeed it is! And I am better for it. So are you, beloved.
“It is by those very clouds that the Spirit of God is teaching us how to walk by faith. If there were no clouds, we should have no faith.” Do you see it? The benefit of the blows and the legacy of the losses?
They are 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 of God’s redemption at work.
No matter the injustice, or the ones who perpetrated it, He takes what we would never choose, to make us who we would never be, otherwise. That is the takeaway, dearest ones.
𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
Not a single hurt was wasted, but maximized instead, ultimately for our good and God’s glory.
If your healing, like mine, has come in fits and starts, breakthroughs and setbacks, progress and regression, don’t despair.
If you, like me, have crawled and limped and walked the long, hard, road of healing and forgiveness, rejoice with me that your victory is not dependent upon the speed with which you arrive, but on your dogged determination to get there.
Keep walking, friends. Victory is not immediate, but it 𝐢𝐬 inevitable in Christ. Storms, while potentially destructive, also possess the transcendent power 𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 for our transformation.
We won’t emerge from them the same, but, beloved, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭.
“Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the “Rock-counsciousness” of the promise given her, “He goeth before.”
~ 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐭