Life will hit you, knock you off your feet, push you around and throw you to the ground. You will be hurt, you will be wounded. You will be broken and torn. But don’t give up. Get back up again. Don’t let the bleeding stop you from getting there. Bandage your wounds and continue. Don’t stop until you get there. Don’t let the wounds stop you from moving. One step at a time you will make it. You will bleed but not to death.
Paul in 2 Corinth 4:16-18 writes ” we do not lose heart for our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. Hear what Paul calls “light and momentary” – tho not the name I would have called them; imprisoned, beaten, stoned, shipwrecked three times, in constant danger, hunger and thirst. How could Paul describe endless trials with the phrase “light and momentary”. He could see “an eternal glory that far out-weighs them all.” Paul was wounded, but he still went ahead.
And you – Remember the crucifixion of Jesus. He was wounded, but he still kept walking. Keep walking. The Lord is with you. I know you want to go on, but some days the road seems so long, the pain so unbearable, the shame so much, the engine refusing to start, with people judging you by your past and singing your mistakes to your face. Let me encourage you with this. Just remember you could be wounded and still walking. God never said the journey would be easy, but He did say the arrival would be worth it.
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