“Will you let me come for you?”
Yesterday we talked about letting God into our painful places to bring healing. The miraculous movements that He will make in our life, the beauty that He will bring in place of the ugly pain and hurt that has piled up for so long; if only we let him. Yesterday we said “if you let Him,” today it’s a question: “Will you let Him come in?”
For so long we have done things on our own…for so long we have trusted our own system, our own way of dealing with the pain…for so long we have been doing it wrong. To borrow from the quote that John and Stasi included in this section, “The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life against being opened up and transformed.” The walls I built—the walls we built—were an attempt to protect what remaining parts of my heart I felt I had left and I think that goes for a lot of women. We want to hold on to what we feel we have left, but in doing this we shut out the one person who can heal those damaged parts, the one who can make our hearts whole again.
God promises to be tender, to care for our hearts in a manner that would never bring pain.
Hosea 2:14
Therefore I am now going to allure her
I will lead her into the desert
And speak tenderly to her.
Another version I read said that He would “speak comfort to her.” Imagine the healing and comfort and peace we can have if we say ‘yes!’ If we open our hearts to God and let His hands repair what years of pain has broken down. He is knocking on our hearts. Knocking and waiting. Knocking and waiting. He knocks and we hold more tightly to that key; he knocks and we fear that opening the door will bring more pain. We fear that it will make us more vulnerable than we already are. But, lovely ladies, it is very opposite from that. Opening the door to Him will heal that hurt, He will strengthen us through His love, and He will remind us that ours are hearts of beauty and wholeness.
Ladies, God is knocking and asking us to turn the key over to Him. He is asking us to unlock the door and let Him in to begin the healing work He wants to do. He is asking us to stop believing the lies of our hurts and to remember the healing message in His truths.
I have worked as a hospice bereavement counselor for three years, One of the main pieces of information I give to patients and their families is to allow themselves to feel the emotions they are having. Not to stuff and ignore…but to allow the emotions to flow. To cry, to be scared, to be mad, that it is okay to feel in response to their situation. To “let it out.” We have to let ourselves feel again, ladies; to feel without fear of opening ourselves up too much, to feel without fear of being wrong in our feelings. To feel with the knowledge that God has our heart in His hands, to feel and give those feelings to God, the fear, the anger, the hurt.
He is knocking. He is waiting at the door to our hearts. He wants us to cry out to Him…to give Him the key. He wants us to let Him in to heal our hurts. To make our hearts the complete masterpiece He designed them to be.
With Love,
Tonya
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Let’s Pray:
Dear Lord, thank You for not leaving us. Thank You for knocking and waiting. Thank You for not giving up on the women you created us to be. Thank You for Your love and compassion, for Your healing touch. I bind the spirit of fear in Jesus name, it has no control over our lives, it has no say in our emotions. Our hearts belong to You, Lord. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
Your Assignment:
There is a prayer on page 101 (I’m not sure what page it is in the electronic version, but it is at the end of the “Renounce The Agreements You’ve Made” section. It is a prayer for the spirit of truth, it is a prayer to renounce the lies we have believed over the years.
If you journal, this would be a great place to write this prayer. If you feel comfortable, you can pay it in our private Facebook group, as well.
Also, please stop in and share your thoughts from these sections. Your insights may bless another.
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thank you, tonya, great encouragement! if ever there is One Who can be trusted with our hearts, it is the One Who formed and made our hearts…oh.how.He.loves.us.so. <3
Thank you, Tonya! Wonderful post! I used to think crying was a sign of weakness (ie, why do men not cry and women do? Men are stronger than women). God has put some pretty incredible men in my life recently who’ve show their strength through their tears. God knows our tears; He catches every single one and embraces us even tighter while we become vulnerable in His presence. Yes, as Coleen said, He loves us sooooo much!
I thought the same thing, I even had people tell me as much if I would cry. But I noticed that when I cried my walls were down and I knew God was holding and healing my heart.
This post blessed my socks off 🙂