When I travel, I overpack every single time. The hilarious part is when I deceive myself thinking the suitcase will actually close! I sit on that joker, bounce zip it, and if that fails…I have to keep it real with myself. This is where keeping it real goes wrong because I don’t want to face reality; I’m not a pack light type of girl. One suitcase is not realistic if I want to have choices on what I wear when I reach my destination. Either I have to remove some clothes and wear the same pair of shoes the whole time, or I bring a carry-on for my shoes and pack more clothes. Another option I love is the vacuum bags! The problem is that they too have a maximum capacity and my suitcase still won’t close so… The solutions are valid, but I’m never willing to compromise my desire for the solution. Furthermore, the airline will not let me check an overstuffed, unzipped suitcase which I need in order to have anything when I reach my destination! I’m going somewhere with this, hold the line please…
Now, how often do we treat God as the one suitcase? I want to stuff the boundless, limitless, infinite, eternal God into MY one suitcase. The moment He doesn’t fit into that suitcase that I’m dedicated on zipping closed, I try to figure out ways to shrink Him down into some vacuum-packed bags. I sit on the bags to expel all the Holy Spirit and the gospel to fit what I can control, fathom, and understand. Then, I sit on the suitcase and try to zip it closed, no happenings. I have goals and a husband to get so I’ll just put a strap on the bag since it’s nearly-not closed. I hope and pray that the airline will let me check this bag because I’ll need the God that clearly didn’t fit into my suitcase when I get to MY destination that I created. Failure to keep it real with myself threw my life into a downward spiral, out of control, and spat me out at the same place that I started. This was a 10+ year trip by the way:o)
“Great is our Lord and of great power; His understanding is inexhaustible and boundless.”
Psalm 147:5 AMPC
This scripture stabbed me and rightfully so. The Word of God is designed to.
“12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 NIV
I have a need to excessively test and prove someone trustworthy, especially with my vulnerability. It took me 14 years to trust my best friend. I was molested in vulnerability, so I hate it, but it’s required in order to trust. Psalm 147:5 challenged me and this is what I found to rest my nerves when I get antsy in the trust zone by asking “How Lord?”. The two key words in the Amplified translation: Inexhaustible and boundless.
Inexhaustible is defined as an amount or supply of something, unable to be used up because existing in abundance, (Google Dictionary).
Boundless is defined as unlimited or immense, (Google Dictionary.)
God is too vast to be measured. Too wise to be understood. Too powerful to oppose. He just too of everything! Impossible to contain or shrink. He will not fit into our molds of Him. While we’re busy trying to fit God into our dreams, and molds, this world is victorious at containing us. Any progress we think we’re making outside of God’s will is limited; you’ll end right back up at the beginning in a decade or two. It’s a gerbil wheel without our boundless God. He has amazing dreams for our lives, if He didn’t, we would’ve never been given a birth date! (Ephesians 2:10 NLT).
Our adversary hates us so he does his best to turn us away from God as soon as possible. One way he does this is by influencing susceptible people to do evil things to us to turn us away from God. In the GirlPal community, our focus is healing from the evil of childhood sexual trauma. Overcomers struggle to trust most often as a result. This requires healing which can only come from a limitless God making it as if it never happened, Psalm 147:3. Then, we’re able to show our wounds to others so that they too can believe that God will do it for them. All God needs is our sincerity and willingness to allow Him in to cure us, (Matthew 8:2-3). A cake topper for me on healing wounds is Jesus after the resurrection. He allowed one of His disciples to place their finger and hand into His wounds; The text doesn’t tell us that Jesus felt pain (John 20:25-27).
Jesus loves you and so do I. Be blessed:o)
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