Make Us New

“Healing is messy and fluid and often unpredictable. I can’t manufacture my own healing. It usually takes longer than I think, runs deeper than I wished, and involves more areas of my life than I ever imagined. But once I come through it on the other side, healing not only offers the closure I thought I wanted, it comes with a wholeness, wellness, and restoration that closure lacks.” ~ Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-hard Life

“The fact that I needed healing did not mean I was horrible; it meant I was human.”~ Emily P. Freeman, Grace for the Good Girl: Letting Go of the Try-hard Life

The month of December always seems to conjure up reflections on the events of the past year. Once the Christmas presents are unwrapped, the pies eaten, and the hustle and bustle of the season is calm for a moment, our minds turn to evaluation. A good year, a bad year, a hard year, we all tend to find words to describe the last 12 months. If your year has been particularly difficult, or even if it hasn’t, you’re bound to have reached December with your fair share of emotional or spiritual scrapes and bruises. We are in a war, after all (Eph. 6).

What if you’re not feeling so ready to tackle the new year? What if your first thought towards January is permeated with weariness, rather than hope? Like a boxer emerging from the fight with a broken nose, you no longer need a mere towel around the neck, you need your bones---read, your core to be reset.

Jesus seeks to do just that for you. He longs to heal your core from past hurts. When we become painfully aware that our “I’m fine” is no longer believable to anyone, not even ourselves and certainly not to God, we can ask God to step in. The realization that “yes, I’m hurting, and no, I didn’t quite get over it like I thought I would have” is hardly fun. But, it is real. More than that, God expects that from us. He knows true healing cannot come from our humanness.

So come, Lord Jesus. Permanently heal those dark places in our beings with Your love, grace, and strength. Make us new.

“I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: "Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone." The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down—each word dependable and accurate."~ Revelation 21:5, The Message

Blessings,

Feylyn Lewis