What God Taught Me this Week.

The Places We Hide Are The Places God Wants To Heal.

I learned something this week that shook me with real truth. God cannot heal the version of us we pretend to be. He can only heal the version we actually are. And many of us have mastered the art of hiding...hiding pain, disappointment, fear, rejection, and the quiet ache of feeling overlooked. We hide because we think if people see our cracks, they will walk away.

Or we think admitting our fears means we are failing or not good enough. So we stay silent and we think silence is our protection. But God showed me that what we call "strength" is often just survival with makeup covering the bruises. It looks good from a distance, but it is still a mask covering the pain underneath...And here is the revelation that stunned me: God is not drawn to the mask. He is drawn to the places where we are hurting. As scripture reminds us in 2 Cor 12:9 His strength is made perfect in our weakness.

We think people will lose respect for us if they see where we hurt. But God gains access through the very places we're ashamed to expose. In Scripture, every miracle began with someone admitting a lack...sickness, brokenness, hunger, blindness, or emptiness. The power did not show up where they pretended to be strong, it showed up where they confessed the truth of their condition and where they were. Scripture reminds us. "A bruised reed He will not break." (Isaiah 42:3) and again "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3).

Then God said to me, "I can't transform what you hide and protect. Bring Me what you fear others will judge."

That truth alone set me free and opened my spirit to be healed and delivered. I realized that wholeness begins the moment we stop protecting our brokenness.

What have you been hiding? Your honesty is where intimacy and healing begins.

In His Peace and Love,

Carrie