I’m not talking about bodily aches but the knife in your heart and twist it pain.
The, take your breath away, pain. What do you do with it?
You allow it to stay and you hold it up to the light and study it, turning it this way and that, checking out every angle and facet. The pain deepens.
Or...you accept that it is there but decide not to allow it to linger.
I choose to do the latter. I know the pain will return but each time I hope to send it away quicker.
So I take a deep breath, even though it is a painful breath, and REJOICE in my God.
I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. Jeremiah 29:11 Message
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We were discussing something similar in our Sunday School class the other day, how we need to deal with it over and over by constantly bringing the pain and the thoughts captive to God's truth. Don't you just wish you could deal with it once and for all? But that's not how we'd made.
Dena, I realize too that the devil knows my weak places and he uses those closest to me to invade my heart with rejection.
The choice will always be mine on how I handle it and it still hurts but my God is my strong tower.
Diane,
A good word. Just when you think that pain is gone for good, it can sneak in and BOOM, there it is again. But we trust in His "hope and a future".
Amen!
Jim
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