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January 17 - January 17, 2023
the course of one afternoon with the Word incarnate, a woman trapped in a stultifying life of detachment and dejection becomes a person of influence, whose courageous witness leads a town of people—who might well have mistreated her—to faith in Christ.
Took her shame and gave her honor
“Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father’s heart.”
God’s answer was, “Yes, there’s a way to end human trafficking. There’s a way to do it.” With whom would God share this answer? People with the identity and intention to be in that work. Doesn’t that make sense? I can pray, “God, give me the answer to human trafficking.” But if I’m not in the trenches willing to do the work in my true identity, why would a solution be revealed to me?
“God, should we go? Should we do this thing?”
That’s what kills us—false identity.
Do you know the distance between your mind and God’s mind? Zero.
Here’s an exercise to practice: when you’re stuck in traffic or somewhere else, just say, “Lord, remind me of a time when I was a child and you were communicating your love to me, and I didn’t even realize it. Remind me of a time in my past when you were speaking to me, and I didn’t know it was you.”
“What do you want me to know today to live into my true identity? And what do you want me to do?” Your being, your true self, will always inform your doing.
People who struggle with PTSD often aren’t struggling only because of something that happened to them on the battlefield; they are struggling with something that was already present within them that the battlefield exposed. It’s already present in them; it’s just exacerbated in a crisis.10
Time is not something you can waste or lose. Time is merely a measurement of the movement of objects in space.
