A painful thing to do is look at school year books. When the children are just starting off on the adventure of a lifetime with the brightness of smiles the innocence and hopeful wonder in their eyes. As the years of books get newer you may notice that some of the smiles get less, their eye’s story begins to darken and fade. Not many smiles can find their way to the end, most are lost or stolen. Don’t be fooled it doesn’t stop with that, the attack against hope and expectancy is beaten at nearly every step and turn.
At this point in this discussion It will get very dark and painful, but gather your strength, maybe your very last well protected bit of hope, Psalm3:1O Lord, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; 2many are saying of my soul, “There is no salvation for him in God.” 3But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.
We are seeing many now that were raped and misused as a standard practice. G-D has something to say about these things, if a person was raped; they were to cry out as it was happening, and if they didn’t ; both were condemned to death. Some of you were raped and path forward is put that in the light. Some of you traded your treasures, for what you may have been lead to believe was some benefit to you. Most of you; however were never taught what to do; about someone that would aggressively try to persuade you into having sex, much less how to conduct yourself while you are being raped.
If you have made bad choices or the choices were made against your will. You can not change any of it.
In times past if an enemy would capture a people; one of the things they would do is burn their eyes out, sometimes the last things that they would see, is family being raped and murdered.
Samson is a person that made bad choices and had bad choices made for him. As a result the enemy captured him , cut his hair (taking his strength) and put his eyes out. So in the same way these memories of what happened to you may well be burned into your mind and your eyes can’t see anything else.
If you would take a look at your hand; G-D said the we are fearfully and wonderfully made, the word fearfully used there means to be done with great carefulness. You may not know that the cells in your hand are not the same ones as they were, the old ones are continually being renewed, replaced. In fact all parts of you body even the scares; are now made of brand new cells.
In time Samson’s hair began to grow and G-D gave him back his strength, and he finished as a warrior. I’m sorry that these terrible things have happened, and that your innocent smile and the brightness of your eyes is gone.
G-D offers us a way on from here, He said to renew our minds, this is done by pouring His pure word into our thoughts. This is the only thing that I know will work every time. G-D Loves You and He is not trying to get something else from you.
Maybe just to fearfully and wonderfully Renew you.
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