Healing only comes through pain, through heartache, through tragedies...............without the set-backs, without these times and experiences that humble and yes break us, we cannot be transformed. Without these events in our lives we cannot be molded, shaped, and formed into the Glorious Image of God Almighty. He allows those who Love Him to go through trials, tests, and yes even tragedies! Through it all He remains steadfast in His Love for us. The question is if we will remain steadfast in our love for Him.
Through acts of Obedience, through humbling we draw nearer to Him. Without brokenness many would have no compassion for those who are broken! I have found it curious how the world looks at those who are "poor", those who are without a "home", those who lack in what may deem a successful life. Then I read how Y'shua had No Place to lay His head. I read how Paul and the other apostles were homeless, beaten, scantily clad, etc. Then how they died for the sake of the call. I pray that those who call on His Holy Name will grow even more steadfast in the coming days. For His instructions and calling on each person to be the Servant they are called to be; No Matter the cost.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13, For I think that Elohim has exhibited us, the emissaries, last, as appointed to death, because we became a spectacle to the world, both to messengers and to men.
10We are fools for the sake of Messiah, but you are wise in Messiah! We are weak, but you are strong! You are in esteem, but we are not appreciated!
11Until the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are scantily clad, and beaten, and homeless,
12and labour, working with our own hands. Being cursed, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;
13being insulted, we help. We have been made as the filth of the world – dirt wiped off by all until now.
Luke 14:27-35, And whoever does not bear his stake and come after Me is unable to be My taught one.
28“For who of you, wishing to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
29“Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation, and is unable to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him,
30saying, ‘This man began to build and was unable to finish.’
31“Or what sovereign, going to fight against another sovereign, does not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32“And if not, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
33“So, then, everyone of you who does not give up all that he has, is unable to be My taught one.
34“The salt is good, but if the salt becomes tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?
35“It is not fit for land, nor for manure, they throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”