The shores of life are strewn with ruined friendships, irreparable severances through our own blame or others', and when the Holy Spirit begins to reveal the tremendous twist, then comes the strange distress, "How can we repair?" Many a sensitive soul has been driven into insanity through anguish of mind because he has never realized what Jesus Christ came to do, and all the asylums in the world will never touch them in the way of healing; the only think that will is the realization of what the death of Jesus means, namely, that the damage we have done may be repaired through the efficacy of his cross; Jesus Christ has atoned for all, and he can make it good in us, not only as a gift but by a participation on our part. The miracle of the grace of God is that he can make the past as thought it had never been; he can "restore...the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter" (Joel 2:25).Oswald Chambers
Wow, I love this. It brings to mind walking along a beach with broken shells or glass...something beautiful that has been destroyed and can wound you deeply if you let it...but then you walk up upon a beautiful sand dollar fully intact and realize that after walking through all that yuck, you have been given something more beautiful that you ever imagined you would receive. God has the ability to completely erase what I've done in my life, and while it is truly my prayer that I never forget it, and that I am so scared by what I've done that I never fall into that temptation again, I do pray that those that have been hurt by me are fully restored. And that He chooses to make what once was, as though it never were.
Thank you for walking through this season of broken glass with me. You are so loved
