John 15:8 (TPT) When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my Father!
Oh, how this relates to 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 and the glory to God of our comfort from him multiplied and passed to others. She said it. What she has watched me go through, how I’ve gone through it, encourages her. She is strong because she has seen me strong in you. She is standing because she sees me stand in you. What I have sown in tears she has seen in beauty. What I have sown in time with you she has heard in my testimony. She has heard your truth from my lips. She has heard my belief in you. She has heard my willingness to go low. She has heard my declarations that you are my good Daddy, and you love me and your promises are good and you will be glorified and what I see as mess is just right for you to be Big God. And my willingness to be transparent has enabled her to stand believing in you again and again. My declarations of “be still and know I Am God” encouraged her to rest. That the pause in her reply has shifted from asking for forgiveness from sharp words to seeing Holy Spirit shift situations.
This is your way. Using me in my place because you long to be seen fully and you can use mess beautifully. It feels on purpose. It feels sound. It feels bumpy but in a direction that is glorifying you. And most of all, it answers my cry that nothing is wasted, that you can use it all to glorify.
And I am reminded to not underestimate how He uses me. It is often in the ease, the subtle, the times we think nothing of or expect the least “material” for good, that you do the most. You are amazing God, and I am so thankful that you are for me and with me and love me. Thank you, Lord. You are enough. You are my everything. You are. Thank you.
Excerpt from Truth In Hard Places