Lay It Down

When my spouse of almost 52 years died I needed to feel I still had a purpose. When I lived in Florida I was a Life Coach and was a Director of a Crisis Pregnancy Center. Women’s ministry has for many years been near and dear to my heart.

About a year after my husband died my church offered a lay counseling certification course. I knew it was what I needed to do. Since becoming certified I have counseled quite a few women. Their stories are all different, but the common thread is brokenness.

We are all broken. God created Adam and Eve who fell in the garden and thus began our brokenness. If you look in the pages of Scripture over and over you see sin played out. Jesus took all of our wrongs to the cross with Him to give us freedom from our brokenness.

Only Jesus has the power to heal us. We have to surrender our brokenness at the foot of the cross. Until we lay it down we can never be made whole. Laying our brokenness down gives God the opportunity to reconstruct us.

I am a broken vessel being used by God. I can relate to the pain in the lives of others because I too have struggled. Psalm 34:28 tells us: “the Lord is close to the broken hearted, and He saves those whose spirits have been crushed.” He is the healer…He can use our brokenness for His greater purposes in our lives and He allows us to see the beauty that can come from the ashes.

What do you need to lay down?