Your Story

John 16:33

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Have you ever wanted your story to be different?

Or 

Have you ever wanted someone else's story?

I have!  

 Just maybe if that wouldn’t have happened the way it did then I wouldn’t struggle so much.

My thoughts can consume me some days.  I can let my fear cripple every part of me, I hate to admit it but I can hang on so tightly to past scars.

We can hang on to our story and battle with it till it absolutely controls everything about us.  Our thoughts can begin to consume us, until we let them slowly become our truth.

Some days I feel I am running on empty trying to make all the pieces of my story fit together.

We all have a story, and NONE of them are perfect!

I don’t know your story, and you don’t know mine.  But isn’t it so easy to glance at someone and think they have it so easy, or that they have it "all together"?  Think of that one person you would love to be more like.  If you could just have a little bit of them in your life maybe it wouldn’t be so hard, right?

Wrong!  We all have struggles, disappointments, and things that have happened to us that we never wished did.  Satan doesn't want you to know that though.  He wants you to feel alone in what ever you are struggling with.  He wants nothing more than for you to face it by yourself.

Our lives were never meant to be compared to each other. You were never intended to have someone else’s story.  Your story was designed specifically for you!  

Psalm 139:13-16

For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be

God already knew your story before you ever took your first breath outside of you mother’s womb.  ALL of your days already written down before they even came to be.

Where in your story does it hurt?

Could it be as a child your innocence was taken away, or you strayed down a path of destructive behavior, or maybe you yearn for the one you lost, ____________(insert your hurt)

I encourage you to dig down deep to where that pain rests and ask yourself, “Do you believe God can heal your hurt?”   It can be so hard to let go of the hurt.  Some days it just seems easier to tuck it away deep down so no one, not even yourself can see it anymore.

God can see it.  He knows right where you hurt.  

I am here to tell you there is NO hurt he can’t heal or handle.  He is with you now, just as he was with you then and he will never leave your side.  I find such comfort in knowing he doesn’t want the person I strive to be, he wants the person I already am.   You see the truth is I will never be the person I strive to be, because God never intended that to be my story.  If he thought I could hold it all together and do it perfectly, he would have never died on that cross for me!

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

I just love this verse.  He will provide a way out.  Nothing is impossible for him.  Did you hear me NOTHING.  So don’t let Satan fill you with his lies.  Be done letting him tell you that your hurt is who you are. Don’t let him convince you that you are the only one feeling this way.  It is false!

We all fight a battle!

1 Peter 5:8

Be alert and of sober mind.  Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

For me it will always be a battle, but I will not let Satan win.  Jesus has overcome evil and I am so thankful for that.  So I will continue to press forward knowing that there will be a day I will see my savior face to face…….