God uses crushing places in our life and makes something beautiful.
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My life was wrecked by God in the most beautiful way.
I know, it sounds like an oxymoron. Like how can a life be wrecked beautifully?
How can a life be demolished, seemingly torn apart, taken apart, be beautiful?
Simply put, God orchestrates life in such a way that dismantles our own agenda, our own way, our own plans.
And He replaces them with the better way. His way, His plan and His purposes. And at times, it does not feel good but in the end it is the most beautiful thing that we could have ever imagined.
You see before we were even formed in our Mother’s womb, we were known by God. As found in Jeremiah 1:5.
And He had a plan for our life.
When we lean into him to seek His will for our life, often times we find that ‘our’ own plans do not align with His.
And what takes place in us, to get us where God would have us to be, oftentimes feel like a ‘crushing place’.
TD Jakes says it this way, “It’s the nights that I cried myself to sleep and my tears crawled across the bridge of my nose that God most often used to develop me into the person I am today.”
Crushing: God Turns Pressure Into Power
When it seems like doors are closed to us where we thought they should be swinging wide open.
And when we feel alone.
When we feel as though somehow the pressures of life are just too much to bear.
And when life seems full of trouble.
When times are challenging.
And when it seems as though your faith is tried.
And your faith is tested.
When it feels like you’re living in the space between a rock and a hard place.
Or when it feels as if you’re living in a space between victory and misery.
It’s a ‘crushing’ place.
But as we move deeper into God and learn to ‘trust the process’, we realize that ALL things really do work together for our good. As we find in Romans 8:28.
We learn that the closed doors weren’t our doors.
That tests and trials proved our faith.
And that our faith was made stronger.
And we find that God was with us every step of the way.
Then we begin to see our lives are more aligning to God’s purposes and plans. As a result of the crushing places.
