God accomplishes His will in spite of our brokenness. I used to be under the assumption that the Bible was a Hallmark story. The Hallmark story is clear, predictable and clean. It begins with a little conflict, but then the conflict gets resolved and everything is happily ever after. Actual grace doesn’t work that way. The way God works in a person’s life, in people’s lives, in family’s lives, in a Country’s or a Kingdom’s lives is never clean or clear like a Hallmark story. Sure, there are times when God manifests Himself powerfully and miraculously, but many more times, God allows us to choose. He wants us to choose good. He wants us to choose grace. He wants us to choose the best thing. Also, He allows us to choose brokenness. He allows us to choose in a way that He would condemn, and yet He still works with it and works with us. That’s the key to faith, I think, it’s that everything that we surrender over to God can be used. There’s nothing God can’t use when we give it to Him. I know that God will work with it in ways I can’t imagine. With that, I trust in the Lord. So it’s with this understanding that I surrender to God. That I give all of my brokenness, and all of the brokenness that I’m associated with to Him. I know that God is faithful to His promises and steadfast. I will continue to pray, and I will give my brokenness to Him. I will strive to also be faithful to my promises and steadfast. Amen.
Trust in the Lord
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