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These boots are made for walking.....
......into the destiny God has for you!
Lessons from Kim's sink.......
Like most women, I don't leave my house without makeup. When I look into the mirror, I see flaws, terrible flaws that I cover up to create the illusion of beauty. I can cover the dark circles under my eyes, make my lips red and glossy and bring out the blue in my eyes....I can look great on the outside, yet be hurting on the inside...
I try to cover up the marks on my soul like I do the lines on my face...I put up walls to keep people away so they will not see the hurt and ugly bits that are on my soul...
All of us have things we want to cover up in our lives. Sin leaves us with pain and broken parts. For some of us, they are lifetime wounds.
But they are not suppose to be! We can be healed without scars, if we let Jesus do the healing!
I know right now there are many of you thinking,
" but you have no idea of what I have done "
or "you have no idea what I have had done to me. "
I do know! I know intimately the pain of choices that have left me suicidal, depressed and miserable that weighed on me every day. I felt so dirty, unworthy and I believed like this was the consequences of sin so I had to endure it until I got to heaven ...
But I privately wondered where was the rest for my soul that Jesus promised for all who would come and follow Him. It seemed at times more than I could bear....and frankly living like that, under a mess of guilt, shame and pain didn't seem so great....
I want you to know that God can and does heal without scars. It is a lie that He doesn't do this. It is our beliefs about God that get in the way of that healing we need so badly.
There are two kinds of scars,the first kind are those that somebody else inflicted upon you, like childhood molestation, or child abuse. Or rape. Or betrayal by a spouse. Or the death of someone you loved and needed.
With these kind of scars, Our heart cry is : Where were you God! Don't you love me enough to save me, to rescue me? Didn't I matter enough for you to help?
And whether or not we will verbalize it, we have anger at God for His not coming through for us. And we feel guilty for that feeling, so we try to bury it, or hide it. We certainly don't speak it out loud!
Why would God allow a baby to be beaten, or a 5 year old to be sold in to prostitution? Or a spouse to betray you? Or your mother to die and leave you alone and scared with nobody to love you? How is that a merciful and loving God who wants the best for you? And if this is indeed from God's hand, why would you trust Him? How could you love Him? But if you don't love Him, He will zap you and send you to Hell! So you accept this bizarre view of God and never fully trust Him with yourself. You keep a part away from Him.
We have all kinds of rationalizations to explain away this behavior on God's part. We either choose to believe that God is powerless to prevent pain, or we believe God is distant and has a grand plan that we really don't matter in that much. But in all our efforts to let God off the hook, it still leave us with the fact that God spoke the Universe into being. One word from Him, and everything existed where nothing did before. He has all the power, and He could have rescued you from this pain. Some times it is easier to decide that He doesn't exist, because the alternative is to believe that He just didn't care.
The second kind of scars we carry are ones we caused by our sins. Like adultery, or murder or making the choice to embezzle and winding up in prison and drug abuse. Or prostitution or making porn movies or abortion.
Ironically, most of our sinful choices are usually committed because of the damage caused from the scars that others inflicted upon us!
With the these self-inflicted scars, the ones we cause by our sins, we hurt for the sinful choices we made. We feel like second class Christians, not quite as good as the others, and we bear the consequences of our sins in the scars we carry. We caused it and there is no one to blame but us, but still, we long for God to make it quit hurting. . A lifetime of regret is not what abundant life is about!
Can I ask you a question, What do you believe about God?
Why did he not hear the cries of that beaten baby? Why didn't He stop the molestation? Where was God when you were pregnant and scared? Does God really love you? Are you worth anything to God?
The answer is YES, you matter! You are precious to God, you are worth everything to Him!
We have one really great promise in the bible to stand on when we start asking why....God promises to restore the years that we wasted, that someone else stole. God promises to restore the years the devourer stole from us.
God is good. He is the scource of all love in this world. Every good thing is a gift from His hand. He didn't set our misery into motion, that is the result of sin, that Satan reigns over. All the pain and scars you bear come from the enemy of your soul. He delights in your misery and basks in your pain! Nothing delights him more than God's children living in bondage to the scars sin leaves and not walking in the liberty that Jesus died to give them. He uses God's people to preach to us about our actions having consequences, and the scars we bear are our reminders, and that type of logic heaps weight upon weight and sorrow upon sorrow on our backs. No rest, no peace no healing.
It isn't true. You can have freedom and healing, complete and total. You are called by God to be whole.
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