Oh, Wednesdays...
Oh, how I love Wednesdays...
Totally unrelated to what I'm posting about, but I thought you'd like to know that.
I'm reading the book Lady In Waiting, by Debby Jones and Jackie Kendall, with 3 other girls in what we in Intervarsity have dubbed "discipleship groups." We meet once a week and the idea is to build relationships with each other that foster accountability, trust, and spiritual growth. I can definitely say that my group is on that road. So, we've been reading this book for the past 7 weeks and we're almost finished. It's been a really great for all 4 of us. There are a couple of points where we all had to agree that the situations being presented were far too extreme and we had to find a new way to apply the concepts, but altogether, it's been very applicable. One of the last chapters we read was called Lady of Purity. It basically was talking about guarding your treasure, why God wants us to, what to do if you've already lost it. While I was reading it and preparing, I kept thinking about how taboo the subjects of sexual immorality and sexual struggles are with women. Christian women aren't supposed to struggle with stuff like that. And when they do, it's not talked about. It's crazy how easily we decide how some sin makes us worse people than other sin. God views it all the same and Christ's blood covers it all. I wrote something at the beginning of this school year that is basically about that whole concept. I can only say God is amazing and His love never ceases to amaze me.
Broken Pieces:
She looks in the mirror
Doesn't know what's really there
The darkness surrounds her
Does anyone care?
But her words stay unspoken, her mask is firmly set
To play the part one more day
To maybe, somehow just forget
Cause she's a good little girl
Supposed to know what is right
Hold her head up high and stay this fight
But it's a losing battle, she can't seem to win
Everything inside is crying out for an end
Each day just gets harder
A little more dying inside
She lays her head on her pillow
Who sees the tears she cries?
This lie can't continue, but where can she turn
Will this Savior who loves her
Forgive her horrible sins?
Cause she's a good little girl
Supposed to know what is right
Hold her head up high and stay this fight
But it's a losing battle, she can't seem to win
Everything inside is crying out for an end
From the depths of her soul she cries for relief
For release from this burden, for a little bit of peace
Jesus opens His arms, says "I'm here, little girl.
Your sins are forgiven...and you're still beautiful."
The scars still remain
But the pain feels subdued
All her broken pieces
And how she felt so used
In the arms of her Father her heart found a shelter
And in the end she found love
That he poured out upon her
And this good little girl figured out just in time
Found her strength and her comfort to stay this fight
It was a losing battle 'til someone else stepped in
And everything inside her find freedom in Him
posted by Katie @ 10:10 AM
1 Comments:
It's really funny that Christians determine that there are some actions that are beyond the scope of what a "Christian" ought to do...but really, we're humans before we're anything else, and regardless of spiritual state, we're always in need of grace. It's not there for us to be immoral or whatever, it's there because without it, we'd be in deep poopy. For us to try to convince ourselves that "[x] is beyond what good, decent Christians should do!" is to say that there are things out there that will make the grace and mercy of God null and void, and I'm not convinced that this is the case on any grounds.
If we are not in a position to be honest and fail (because we all will), then we are not in a position to present the truth either in word or deed. What we need to understand today is that it is absolutely OK to fail.
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