Here's a continuation of my thoughts from earlier today. Sooo if you scroll down and read that post first this will make more sense. Figured I'd break it up so you're not reading a novel of a webpage all at once, ha, not that I've ever been known to write excessively long pieces or anything... :)
Ezekiel 16 is an incredible passage. God's power and subsequent tenderness jumps out at me most of all, but last summer something else caught my attention. Jerusalem was broken. She wasn't in awe of God's tenderness. She felt alone and cheated when everything comfortable, everything celebrated, and everything normal was stripped away. It is easy to walk away from the big picture, the whole story, with one mindset-- but think about the journey. I would go through the hardest season of bitterness and resentment if everything I'd defined myself by suddenly fell apart. Eventually I'd see that God knows what He's doing, and I'd be totally floored that He even wants anything to do with me anymore... but it would take so much time and grace to get me there.
He doesn't promise an easy journey. But the promise of a lifetime with a purpose greater than me is so worth it.
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