Re-purposed

    You may be sitting there today feeling lost, abandoned, and alone. Rest assured God is right by your side walking beside you through whatever type of rain that may be pouring on you. Whatever you are going through, whatever battles you face are to make you stronger. I want to speak to the brokenhearted respectively. You are not alone in your brokenness. Everyone out there has at least been broken apart once and if you don't see it then it is because they try to mask their pain or they were delivered from it. They either bury their pain within or they deal with it.What you choose to do with your broken heart is your choice.

    You can let it run your life or you can be in control of it. Broken hearts produce anger which produces bitterness which produces a hard heart and bitterness takes a lot of chiseling away at in order to make that heart soft again. Bitterness is like poison you aren't able to taste right away. You think that holding a grudge against someone will hurt them, but in all actuality it hurts you the most. It takes a lot to transform a bitter heart into something sweet. It takes a lot of adaptation to be able to think pure thoughts about the things that hurt you. You have to completely reshape the way your thinking and look for the best in everyone and when someone does something that offends you that is when you give it to God and meditate on pure things, but maybe you just feel broken.

    You may feel broken about the things you can't control, the person you can't change, or the revision of your life. Instead of sitting on those broken pieces of glass pick them up and throw them away. God won't just put those pieces back together because He doesn't want us to still be something with the cracks still there. Instead He takes those pieces, melts them down, and makes us a completely new vase from the very pieces that once were broken. We still remember how broken we once were, but we are now able to carry what He has for us. He re-purposes us, reshapes us, and heals us. Psalms 34:18 declares that, "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in Spirit." He will comfort you and will save you from your pain.

    He won't leave your side when you enter a storm. He'll assist you in what you need to be able to get out of that storm safely and untouched. He isn't going to abandon you and tell you to fend for yourself. God does His part and we must do ours. We have to have faith that He'll deliver us. We need to believe that He is still there for us, that He'll guide us safely over the obstacles we come to, and that He will do everything in the timing that He knows is best to do it in. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end," Ecclesiastes 3:11. We may not be able to see why we have to walk in the rain a little longer than we see fit, but when we reach the end we finally see the destination that He intended for us to arrive at that we wouldn't have seen if we ducked out of it in the way that seemed easiest for us.

    We have to remember that God knows best and that He will mold us into what His beautiful purpose is for our lives despite what hardship we have to get through to get there. Those hardships could produce something in us that might have not been there if we had it our way. We might miss a valuable lesson or we may miss out on an opportunity to tell others about our experience that may help them get through something in their lives. Whatever the reason it's there for one whether we think it beneficial or not. Anything that is of God's plan is for a greater purpose in which we can rest our hope in. So be encouraged to keep on fighting and try it with a good attitude this time. It's amazing what God does in our hearts when we thank Him in our time of need.