"As love came a sauntering somewhat in my direction, I closed my eyes, and opened the desires of my imagination … longing for love to hesitate its passing, touch and acknowledge my existence. As love passed by without even the offering of a shortened distance or a wisp of a passing breeze, my heart retreated further from the hope of ever truly knowing love." Exert from the Scarlet Sinner, Non Access.
Cowering in a damp, dark corner of most lives is a small dirty abused little child. Hiding for fear of reprisal of any movement or sound that it might make. This fear-filled little blurred image of humanity has been trained to be voiceless and therefore faceless. "Wrong!" has been shouted in its face more than its birth name. Being still and quiet minimizes the provocation of open shaming and ruthless beatings; beatings that have no rhyme nor reason in their frequency and duration. Dare not step forward, dare not make a sound … that would potentially mean days of dealing with open wounds, internal bruising and growing painful infection.
There is a lie that hovers close to the sound of the roaring lion … "Worthless!" The hater of God, and enemy of our souls, does everything he can to nullify our existence by getting us to agree that our scars make us worthless. Satan is relentless at this effort because he knows that the "Scars" of the Savior shout "It is finished", and that our scars are His treasure ready to be revealed for true worth and a power filled life … But only when Connected to Jesus.
Psalm 27: 1-4 - "The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident. One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."
Oh, if only the "Called out" assembly of God, the true Kids of the King, would quit pretending that they have no past, no pain, no tears, no skeletons, no scars. True power in this life is found in our transparency that JESUS shines through. Our BC is in His hands as much as our AD. "Live" understanding that all of our life has been redeemed, and the only thing that is worthless in the woven tapestry of life(counted as"wood hay and stubble" in eternity), is what we selfishly keep for ourselves.
Our scars are not our own, they have been bought with a great price; they are His: Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit which are God's.
HLFA,
Jeff