When something hits you right in the exact place where it can do the most damage…
Right there in the exact middle of your absolute weakest spot…
All of the old things rise up. They offer to protect you, to comfort you. They offer vindication. Your sense of confidence in the love of God seems to fade…
You have to remember who you are. You have to hold onto that knowledge with everything you’ve got. This storm has more than enough of what it would take to destroy you completely, but destruction is not what God has planned for you. You must cooperate with His plan, and not give in to the pain. You need to trust in Jesus to keep you, because this time it’s too much. You can’t do it on your own. You absolutely cannot. You don’t have the strength. But He does.
God has the strength, and He offers it freely.
He is always with you. He is for you, and not against you.
Everything that would speak contrary to this constitutes that which exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
It’s time to do war now. It’s time to rise up into your place as a manifesting son/daughter of the Living God.
Ignore the pain. It does not have any real power over you. Accept who you are. Be still and know that Yahweh is your Creator and your Deliverer, and that as He is, so are you in this world. Do not back down. Hold your head up. Cry out to Him until you have nothing left, and know that He hears, and He is bringing you through this. You have a future. You have a Father. You are loved by the very Power that holds everything in the entire universe together, and nothing can separate you from this love.
Step away from everything that runs contrary to this pure, unadulterated hope, and refuse it all with your very last drop of strength. God will be faithful. He will restore.
