Psalm 34;18
The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
When you’re broken, you don’t try to suck your gut in, since your pain overrides your pride. When you’re broken, you realize that your pain hasn’t gone away, it’s merely stayed the night at someone else’s house for a weekend or so. When you’re broken, you don’t just realize that your problem has been exhaustively thought about, grieved over, counseled over, planned over, resolved over, it has been on your plate, on your heart, in the depths of your soul, longer than you can remember.
When you’re contrite, you’re willing to do anything to change. When you’re contrite, you would have done it again so differently, that Jonah would had to have sought another whale, because you took his. When you’re contrite, something that can change your problem has become your oxygen; you’ll take on new friendships, you’ll read new books, you smile new smiles because, there’s an inkling of hope, a smackerel of a chance of a chance that things could finally change.
When you find that the Lord is near, & you realize that not everybody that is a “Christian” will come to this place, you find that God’s answers are very different than man’s answers. Man tells you “you’ve got the victory”, “you’re an overcomer”, b/c that’s biblical, and people don’t always know how to act towards a Christian that hurts long-term. How you know though, that your hearing from God is actually Him, is when He says this,” I love you enough, to allow you to struggle, b/c that’s one of the ways that keeps you close to me. If I merely took away your pain, your struggle, your grief, I know all too well, that we wouldn’t really talk that much. And you need Me”.
“You need Me to be close to you, not just for a weekend, or for a personal revival when you were on fire over a summer. You need to be close to Me for life. So, when you’ve wondered, how come the God of the universe, that holds together every nuance of life, every tear, laugh, smirk, and doubt, doesn’t change my pain, my endless frustration, it’s because you have a reluctant fair-weather heart. And the way that I keep you close to me is by reminding you that My grace is sufficient for you/ 2 Corinthians 12; 9.
How can a God of love allow this? The answer is in the question, He’s a God of love.
The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
When you’re broken, you don’t try to suck your gut in, since your pain overrides your pride. When you’re broken, you realize that your pain hasn’t gone away, it’s merely stayed the night at someone else’s house for a weekend or so. When you’re broken, you don’t just realize that your problem has been exhaustively thought about, grieved over, counseled over, planned over, resolved over, it has been on your plate, on your heart, in the depths of your soul, longer than you can remember.
When you’re contrite, you’re willing to do anything to change. When you’re contrite, you would have done it again so differently, that Jonah would had to have sought another whale, because you took his. When you’re contrite, something that can change your problem has become your oxygen; you’ll take on new friendships, you’ll read new books, you smile new smiles because, there’s an inkling of hope, a smackerel of a chance of a chance that things could finally change.
When you find that the Lord is near, & you realize that not everybody that is a “Christian” will come to this place, you find that God’s answers are very different than man’s answers. Man tells you “you’ve got the victory”, “you’re an overcomer”, b/c that’s biblical, and people don’t always know how to act towards a Christian that hurts long-term. How you know though, that your hearing from God is actually Him, is when He says this,” I love you enough, to allow you to struggle, b/c that’s one of the ways that keeps you close to me. If I merely took away your pain, your struggle, your grief, I know all too well, that we wouldn’t really talk that much. And you need Me”.
“You need Me to be close to you, not just for a weekend, or for a personal revival when you were on fire over a summer. You need to be close to Me for life. So, when you’ve wondered, how come the God of the universe, that holds together every nuance of life, every tear, laugh, smirk, and doubt, doesn’t change my pain, my endless frustration, it’s because you have a reluctant fair-weather heart. And the way that I keep you close to me is by reminding you that My grace is sufficient for you/ 2 Corinthians 12; 9.
How can a God of love allow this? The answer is in the question, He’s a God of love.