DECONSTRUCTED
I've been sitting on this MMM for a few weeks and have not felt a release to leave it on paper. However, I think now is the time.
A few weeks ago my 3 year old daughter and I were driving to the Mom's day out where I work and she attends, when we passed some road construction.
She asked me "Mommy, why are they tearing up the road?" And without really stopping to think about it, I answered "Well, sometimes they have to tear things down so they can be built up even better."
After that came out of my mouth, I thought about the it the whole rest of the way to work and thought how true that is sometimes. Sometimes what we see as a storm or a crisis, is really just a chance to God to break us down so that we can be rebuilt: bigger, better and more beautiful.
2 Corinthians 1: 3-5, 9-10 says:
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows....Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us."
We have received comfort from Christ so that we might bring comfort to others and even though we might feel like our storm is holding a death sentence over our lives, he WILL DELIVER US and He will CONTINUE TO DELIVER US.
Be comforted during your deconstruction phase that you will be delivered to the other side.
God Bless and have a great Labor Day.
Keri
Thanks Keri. Good word.
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