Pruning and refining doesn’t feel good...but the fruit it produces is SO worth it.
The masterpiece.
The freedom.
The healing.
The inexplicable joy on the other side.
Makes it all WORTH IT.
Hang on sister! God is breaking through some heavy chains like only He can!
And the greatest joy doesn't come the breakthrough; it comes from the One who gives you the breakthrough.
This may be 3 of some of the most potentially dangerous words that exist:
➡️""I don't know.""⬅️
I don't know how I'm going to make it.
I don't know what to do next.
I don't know where my life is going.
I don't know what the next step is.
I don't know how I'll ever heal.
I don't know if I'll ever recover.
I don't know why I'm doing this.
I don't know where to start.
I DON'T KNOW leaves you STUCK.
It leaves you helplessly thinking you need all the answers yourself, which lead you to feeling overwhelmed and either taking mindless action, OR not taking any action at all.
Friend, I know it's overwhelming.
But the enemy would want nothing more than for you to stay stuck. Not just stuck, but digging even further deeper into a dark, dark hole.
Even if you genuinely think you don't know what the next step is, make sure you ALSO think that you are gonna do WHATEVER IT TAKES to at least know and find out what your next one step will be.
Small steps repeated over and over, have an incredible ripple effect.
Just don't stay in the ""I don't know"" zones.
You don't need to know all the answers, because God does. And He is faithful to lead you to each of your next ""one"" steps.
It is so easy to let the thoughts run wild when we believe pain is happening TO us.
It can send us down a spiraling, dark hole.
What if we believed that the pain was happening FOR us instead?
I know that's hard to imagine, especially as you're going through it.
But God knows exactly what you're feeling, and we have the cross to show us.
When we don't know why we have to go through our pain, and while we are waiting to have the answers revealed to us (if we are given the honor of knowing), we can look to the cross and trust that pain CAN be happening FOR us.
And that purpose is one of the most beautiful things in this world, so perhaps the pain we are feeling in this season can be for something good and beautiful beyond what we can imagine too.
