Beauty in destruction Last week my heart was so heavy for the weight this world bares. Our destructive nature, our struggles, and our failures we live with every day. On a daily basis I meet people who are hurt. I hear about people losing loved ones, families being torn apart, relationships being severed and even a lot of the time in the name of our own selfish endeavors. For the last week I allowed myself to dwell in this spirit and although was in prayer it was still such a burden that brought pain to my soul. I wanted to thank everyone who reached out to me in prayer for my heavy heart even through my weaknesses. I want to share the peace God has shared with me this morning. There is peace and beauty in our destruction. I struggle daily in destruction. My actions often times never lined up with my words and I was hurting. I chose to live in destruction and many of you were even witness to this destructive lifestyle, my ugliness. And I bought into this lie that told me, what’s the point? who could I help living in such a destructive nature? I felt like I was never me. That I couldn’t be who I was for living in such destruction and I had to change on my own. That God couldn’t use me without changing. This was my struggle. I never quit believing in God. I never stopped claiming to be a Christian. I was just destructive, selfish, and hurt. While the truth is there is NO lie that Christ can’t overcome in us, and the change in me wasn’t of my own. Struggles are evident. It is how we live through these struggles. As humans we hurt, we are selfish and ugly. Our destructive nature leads us down a long dark path. But the beauty is that no matter how dark, how long this path we’ve been, or how hurt we have all become Christ is still with us. The beauty of our destruction is the love we have in the arms of a God that even in the midst of our destruction will love us all the same. Allowing us to rest in His peaceful nature.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:57:05 +0000