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My name is grace. I am well loved and received everywhere I go, often even praised. Few would ever imagine the abuse I have faced and how often I am misunderstood and misrepresented. I want to share a little of my pain, show you my heart and tell my story. I love all those who give me away, but dislike those who feel entitled to me. One of my favorite things is to help people through the hard times as they grow, but I hate it when my name is used to help people stay right where they are. I have an imitator who has an almost uncanny resemblance to me. She brings so much relief just as I do, but she hides truth from all who know her and her relief is a false security! Please, if you ever meet her, know that the real me loves, honors and embraces truth. It is such an insult to the beauty of who I am, and frankly, makes me feel so cheap when people simply use me to avoid truth. It goes against my purpose and cuts me deeply, the meaning of life for me is to make it easier on those who are searching for truth, never to help them avoid the one thing that can set them free! Perhaps the very worst abuse I suffer is, it is almost too shameful to say, but it is when my name is used in such a horrific way as to allow an oppressor to bully or hurt others. I was never meant to be used to empower abuse! I have always been here to help anyone, even the worst, on their road to truth so they too could be set free, but the way people throw my name around as an excuse to avoid the hassle of standing up for the oppressed? It is almost more than I can bare! Over and over people take advantage of me, they use me as an excuse to do their darkest deeds, or as an excuse to enable others. You see Truth, she is actually my sister. We are inseparable really so to use me without her, is to deny others of everything I am really meant to give! I am sure you can see I have many scars. Some of the nicest people you will ever meet have used me to enable others dark deeds, and some of the most selfish people around use me regularly as their excuse to continue to do what is best for them alone. Don't you see my pain? I am so misunderstood and used. I have the power to make the world beautiful, loving and kind, when used properly I am both gentle and strong enough to change anyone for the better. I wish people would stop believing these awful lies about me and how they think I work when what I truly am could not be more different. I would love to sit down some day and share with you the stories of all the many lives I have changed and all the people I have helped. This is why it hurts me so deeply when others are quick to accept my imitator and miss out on all I can give to them or the very ones they are trying to help. If I can leave you with one thought to help you recognize the real me should we ever meet, remember I lead all those I help to truth and never away from it. Thanks for letting me share this, if we have not already, I hope we meet soon and you will introduce me (the real me) to all you know! Sincerely, Grace
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"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9 I have always done my best to follow what I think God would have me do. At times I was obsessed, even panicked that I was messing up. I was afraid I was missing the subtle clues dropped from the sky that I thought I was supposed to find. The problem was in doing the human thing, focussing so much on a direction He once led in, that embracing where He was currently leading could never be.
In all of this I have learned something that has simplified my life, and I hope it can do the same for yours - go where God is. If you are like me, this is where you are screaming on the inside "that is exactly what I want to do if only I KNEW WHERE THAT WAS." It is so simple friend, it is found in complete surrender and complete trust. It is trusting that whatever direction He is currently taking you in is His best for you. It is where you never could have fathomed going, but peace is there waiting in the trust, in the surrender, and in the rest. God is where it no longer has to make sense. He is where there are detours, and road blocks, and open doors you were not even looking for. He is a million steps ahead of you. He lingers in our uncompromised trust. So go where God is, the place inside of your heart that free falls with abandon into His loving arms. Dwell there, make it a habit not to stray from there, and see that this is where the mountain moving God dwells. He is in the casting down of your fleshly desires to understand, or interfere or even plan your own steps. What Father could take His eyes off of His child when they are trusting His arms to uphold them and His hands to lead them? You, my friend, are the apple of His eye, so when life is particularly hard and your mind cannot fit the pieces together, find your place beside Him and know that is exactly where you were meant to be. |
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