Restoration
comes
to
those
long
devastated.
Judy Hougen spoke those words yesterday during her sermon. They rang within me. I repeated them over and over hoping to remember them, hoping to impress them on my heart, hoping for hope.
I am waking up. I am beginning to see new things. I am being called out of passivity and death into life. I am being transformed. I am finding out who He is and who I am. But there is so much new-ness. As the wind of God blows in my life I am experiencing the waves of resistance. Today I feel like the boat is swamped and we might be going down.
I've been waking each morning with the sense of being overwhelmed, behind, "under it". Today it was there again but I invited God into all of these places. I even invited him into the ways I have been escaping and trying to soothe these aches. I'm not sure what will happen from here. Perhaps today will be a day of tears.
This coming alive is painful.
3 comments:
restoration
comes
to
those
long
devastated . . .
so
hard
to
watch . . .
HOPE
is
in
KNOWING
it
was
true
for
me
so
I
wait
alongside
HOPING
it
is
true
for
?
Restoration comes when you BIND your mind to the mind of Christ and your will to the will of God and yourself to the truth of God's word and your emotions to the control of the Holy Spirit. This straps you in.
Then you loose (break the power of)generational bondages, wrong agreements, wrong thinking, and wrongs words spoken to you, by you and about you and conventional wisdsom.
Try it for a week, it actually works to use the keys of binding and loosing.
That portion of my sermon was meant to echo Isaiah 61. Those who have received ministry in their brokenness and distress become "oaks of righteousness" who "will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations" (Is. 61:3-4). David J. said it well once--whatever else it means to pray "Thy kingdom come," it means that things get restored. The Good News is so good.
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