The reason I’m telling you that story is to give you a picture of what it’s like in our lives when a thorn of the enemy gets embedded in us. Sometimes it’s a thorn of offence, or deep hurt, or a thorn of feeling useless or inadequate. It might be a thorn of an addiction, or sickness, or a thorn of guilt or shame, or resentment or bitterness.
The enemy will use anything he can to hurt us, to harden our hearts to make us build up a protective wall around the hurt so we can’t function the way we should, and we hold people at arm’s length. So what’s the cure?
Just like soaking in hot water, we need to soak ourselves in the truth of God’s word which will tell us we’re forgiven, that Jesus bore all our brokenness, our shame and guilt, all our pain and hurts, as well as all our sin and sicknesses, at the Cross. Jesus took all the offences, the disappointments, the slights we’ve received that put us down, and He bore it all in Himself so we don’t need to. His great grace lifts it all away.
Jesus told His disciples one day that they were too hard hearted, and we know, when we find it hard to believe His promises, when we’re cynical, that our hearts have become a bit hard too.
He’s asking us to open ourselves up to Him, and it may take time, but the more we soak in His Word, and hear His Word taught, the softer we’ll become, the freer we’ll become, because we’ll discover who we really are in Him, not what circumstances, or others have tried to tell us or make us. We’ll discover we’re His prized possession, that He loves us more than we can ever imagine.
Whom the Son sets free, is free indeed.😊 In Jesus name. Amen.
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Praise the Lord Almighty in Jesus name Amen!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jackie very well written and received.
God Bless you. Xx