The Beauty of You

Sometimes God just wants to rip the scab off and expose the wrongness underneath the wound. 

When things don't heal well, they often cover up an underlying condition that has not been given the proper treatment to heal.   

In nursing terms (by profession, I am a nurse)  this is called 'debriding' the wound. Debridement is the removal of dead or damaged tissue to improve the healing of the remaining tissue.  After debridement, you expose the open wound to heat, light and medications that would then cause it to heal. If it went through a couple of days of treatment and if it wasn't healing properly, we would debrede it again...and again and again until proper healing took hold.   

This blog is to the woman (I guess it could also be to a man but I doubt he would be huddled in the corner of a room. Gentlemen, you may read on because it is good)  huddled in the corner of the room crying into her hands. locking the door so that no one can come in so she can find her release in private. Tears streaming down her face because of the pain, the hurt, the loneliness; the quiet suffering, the shame, the emptiness, the trek through the desert, through the valley, through the storm.  In the flame of the fire.   the bitterness of the cold.  Through the night; through the day.   Through the silence of God.....where are you?  Through the wondering, where are the friends? Where has the family gone?   why does suffering have to be done alone?   crying out, when will this end? What will I look like when this ends?  when will you deliver me?  God, when will you deliver me?

                 How much longer?

As painful as it may be, God will restore you.  He will bring you to a place that all will be well again.
But, He may first have to rip some things off of you.  Things you may think are healed and okay.
God doesn't use band aids......He uses tonic that will cleanse from deep within...the blood of Jesus Christ!   All we have to do is ask Him to see the root of the issue.  Weeds will only disappear when you dig them out from the root.  The same will be of your 'issue'.   It will only heal when you rip it out from the root.

Over a year ago, I asked God to show me the root of things.  He actually showed me some 'roots' I didn't know were an issue.

Today, I can tell you that it has been a painful process but I can also tell you that I am living in a very 'high' place.  A place of ordained appointments.  A place of destiny.
I am realizing dreams.

That is God's desire for you.  Which actually is your desires too; you just have to let them start coming out through the mess of scabs and scars you may carry.

When He starts ripping the scab off, the Beauty of You can come out.  The Beauty of You that He created.   

Dear Lord,

Rip the stupid scab off!!   Let your design of me come forth!   Let me walk in your love like never before.   Show me your Glory!

I know that You will help me through this and do it in love and compassion.  You will do it slowly, so I won't die.  

Then, You will put me back together as only You can do!  

You are a "Good Good Father"!  (Housefires II .....listen to it!)

I pray this in Jesus name,

Amen

Carla