Who You Are

Vulnerable. Exposed. Real. Authentic. Hurting.

All of those feelings embody how I don't want to seem to everybody else. Which means I've strategically built ||walls|| around myself so as to appear as that is what is going on underneath. Unfortunately, that does me no good. Honestly, I wish it did, but God has other plans. Every single time I've let myself be vulnerable with those around me something amazing has happened. God has allowed them to speak into my life, or I have been shown things that I hadn't been able to see before. But for some reason, it's just easier to let other people talk and not worry about my problems for now. What I end up doing in that situation is bottling it up then bursting at the most inconvient times. Yup, that's how it works. Now, don't get me wrong, I've gotten a lot better about this. But it's hard. One thing that helps me is resting in the truth that God loves me. I am valuable, I am good enough and I am exactly who he wants me to be right now.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord,

"plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."

Jeremiah 29:11

"My days have passed, my plans are shattered.
Yet the desires of my heart

 turn night into day;

in the face of the darkness light is near."

Job 17:11-12

In his weakest moment's, Job said that. He was stripped of everything. His own FAMILY told him to turn his back on God and walk away. But no, he didn't. He stayed faithful to the Father, just like the Father had stayed faithful to him for so long.

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TRUST

Trust is not something that comes easily to a whole lot of people.

Trust has to be built over time.

Trust is not something that we allow.

Trust is God given.

Our trust needs to be in Christ, and HE allows us to be

Vulnerable. Exposed. Real. Authentic. Hurting.

with those around us. 

Trust comes from the only one who can truly trust.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

and lean not on your own understanding,

in all your ways acknowledge him;

and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5

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God WILL place people in your life that allow you to be vulnerable.

But He still wants you to put your full trust in Him. 

 

Will you trust Him?