"sweetly broken
wholly surrender..." -Jeremy Riddle
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this has been the journey of my summer.
The radio station that I listen to, (the word fm) often plays this commercial about summer being a time for families, ice cream trips and chasing fireflies. It also mentions that summer is a season of change and then thanks the listeners for supporting them.
I've really been thinking about summer as a season of change. It bridges from spring...the start of new life, to fall...the beginning of decay. And that has been my summer. Or should I say I entered a premature fall when we broke up...but that premature fall came to a new spring and a better summer.
I will say that being broken was sweet during the process but looking back now, I see how God was sweetly breaking me. He definitely used the distance to ease the breakup. He also used His word (through my countdown in the Psalms) to put my hope and trust in HIM alone instead of others.
The wholly surrender part has been easier since being completely broken. I found it easier surrendering when my life crashed on me because I finally came to the end of my selfish ideas and dreams. They crashed and burned. I surrendered to my Creator nothing but a broken life.
I know now is just the beginning but God is in the business of reconstruction and I am so GLAD that He delights in my brokenness because now He can remold me into the woman of God that I will be.
I'm so excited because I know that God holds great things for my future.
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