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“Healing and Becoming God's Child”

“Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance — all who seek the Lord! Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation. Abraham was only one man when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.”

[Isaiah 51:1-2 NLT]

Sandie O. writes:

I have struggled my whole life to feel any worth and to believe that anything good could come from me.

I was abused almost my whole childhood, much by my father, and so I was terrified of God the Father. The idea of being a Bride of Christ and having an intimate relationship with Him was something I couldn’t get past.

So I was unable to trust God enough to truly come to Him so that He could free me from these lies in my life.

I knew in my head that God loved me because it was what I was told, so I kept searching God’s Word and seeking its Truth. The more and more I read the promises and truths that God had for me, and learned the character of our wonderful Lord and Redeemer, the more I began to trust Him and allow Him to work in my life.

The more I learned about Him, the more I wanted to know Him, and I sought more earnestly to have a truly intimate relationship with Him. God freed me from the lies of Satan, and gave me His Truth instead.

I still struggled with feeling worthy and useful. First because of the scars of the abuse, and then because my life as I knew it was taken away from me because of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

The ways I was working and serving were no longer possible. I really wanted to just give up on everything.

Then I found the verses in Isaiah 51:1-2, and God showed me that He uses simple people to do great things in His Kingdom. If I would place my hope in Him, He would deliver me and bless me.

Even in my physical weakness and inabilities, even though I had a dark past, God could and would move past all of that.

God is bigger than anything in my life, and He will move and use me if I make myself available to Him. It is in our
weakness that God moves the best.

The Bible is my rock. When the storms in my life rage around me and try to pull me under, I have this rock to cling to.

The Bible gives me the promises and the Truth of who God is, who He created me to be, and how He will move through me and use me to do great things for Him. I just need to be available, open and obedient to Him.