Sometimes it still hurts. It makes me angry, frustrated, and, if I’m honest with myself, afraid it will happen again. And right now, I don’t have enough strength to run from it, much less control it.
I have two choices. I can just let those thoughts have their way—give in and let them redefine the way I think and feel about everyone and everything, including myself. That might isolate me in sadness and self–pity, but at least I know those walls will protect me.
Or, I can overwhelm and displace it by opening a door to a greater reality: “What are You saying about this, Lord? How do You want me to see all this? Who do You want to be for me right now to overcome it?”
Everything God speaks, through His word and to your heart, is like breaking the dam on a river, washing away fear and doubt. He will flood your heart and mind with His thoughts toward you, overwhelming deceit, self–condemnation, and frustration, and replacing them with truth, grace, and peace. That’s why the enemy tries so hard to get you to focus on the pain, and not on Jesus: he knows the lies he tries to fill your head with are fragile, and can be shattered by one word from the Lord.
“For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and believe I’ve come forth from God . . . In Me you have peace. In the world there is trouble, but take heart—I’ve already overcome the world” (John 16:27 &33).
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