LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Growing up, trust was in very short supply in my world. Those whom you would normally trust had proven to be non-trustworthy. For me trust had to be earned and it was not automatically given. For the abused child especially this is a truth that they carry with them. So how do you learn to trust again? For me it was a slow process.


Your heart yearns for someone who can show you the least bit of encouragement, a nod of approval in an otherwise cruel world. All you can usually see is darkness, a gray haze that covers your life and dampens all of your hopes and dreams. It is a mist and fog that penetrates to your soul. It is a confusion that keeps you stuck were you are and will not release you to go to that place where you can even dream of a better day. There were times that I could not see "the light at the end of the tunnel". It was too far away from my reality.

I began to draw from God. I knew that those silent tears and prayers were reaching upward to God. I felt better for having prayed them. He was someone whom I could confide in and He would never tell a living soul about what I had told Him. I came to discover as time went on that He could instill in me the ability to see a little light at the end of the tunnel.

As I kept talking to God then the light in the tunnel began to shine a little brighter each day. You see hope had entered into my life. Someone once told me that you can endure anything if you know that what you are enduring will soon come to an end. The light at the end of the tunnel is manifested as hope in your life.

Matthew 12:20&21 tells us that He[Jesus] will not crush those who are weak or quench the smallest hope.. and His name[Jesus] will be the hope of the world.

If you are in a situation that you feel is hopeless begin to talk to God about it and ask Him to give you hope.

Until Next Time, Gracie

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ENTERING 2011----EXITING 2010

 I hear those who say, "Thank God 2010 has ended!” For them the NEW YEAR just signals some sort of escape from things that plagued them.

Throughout our whole lives we are constantly entering something, whether it is a new phase of our lives or a new job, or a new situation.

Have you ever thought about HOW you exit one thing will determine how you will enter the next thing? If you leave one to enter the next with unforgiveness, bitterness or unresolved anger and hurt...you will sow seeds of the same in the new area of your life and contaminate it also.

I once had a job I chose to leave because it was causing me a lot of bitterness and resentment over how I felt they treated me. I left with all of that bitterness and resentment in tact because I thought that it would automatically leave when I escaped my old job to enter a new job. It did not. I carried it, and the pain, with me until I made a decision to let go. I was also only thinking of my new job as a means of escape.

God’s escape pattern is not about taking you FROM something but taking you TO something. Take the children of Israel; they were led out of bondage by Moses to take them into the promise land. Abraham also left Ur of Chaldees to enter a land and relationship with God’s promise and covenant. God is always looking to the finished product.

Deliverance is always based on taking you OUT of something and bringing you INTO something new.

This year let it be one where we ask God to take us out of our own destructive patterns and lead us into new areas of PEACE and HOPE. Let us resolve to work on those things that would hold us back from being all God wants us to be. Choose to look at this year as a year of HOPE.

Happy New Year,
Gracie

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