"This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike 'What's next, Daddy?' God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who He is, and we know who we are: Father and children."
-Romans 8:15
I bought this book last week called Confessions of a Good Christian Girl, and it has blown me out of the water. In a good way. One of the main points of the first chapter is that the Christian life is not the before-and-after story it is sometimes made out to be.
I used to think that I could bring all of my brokenness to God, and then He'd fix it and everything would be fine and dandy from then on. So when I began to let God walk me through my brokenness in January, I assumed things would be just peachy by, say, April.
Nope.
I'm still walking through my issues, and I'm realizing that they will never be fully resolved this side of heaven. I'm also beginning to be at peace with that. I can be broken and have issues, but I can also live my life without fear, "adventurously expectant" as the verse says.
I'm tired of being timid and grave-tending, wallowing in my pain or denying its' existence. God and I are on good terms again, and I'm choosing to trust Him again with my heart.
I know that He won't hurt me.
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