Yield and
Surrender
Nancy
Harry
www.e-eaglesrest.com
I always
told my children to pick up their shoes and put them away. One day I tripped
over a pair of my own shoes and broke a toe. My children never let me live it
down. Even now that they are grown, they will sometimes bring it up. For some
reason they found the incident very funny. My throbbing, hurting toe did not
find it so amusing. The slightest bump, even the slightest touch to that toe
would cause pain to go racing through my body causing yelps of pain. It was not
a happy toe. When it had healed, a bump or touch would practically go
unnoticed.
Our heart
reacts the same way. When we see in others the slightest tendency towards a way
of acting or a characteristic that has led to hurt before – we may begin to
think that this person would hurt, that they would offend, or that they would
try to control too - and our sensitive heart begins to holler: “Be careful.
Watch out.” And that may be good. It becomes a thermometer to protect us. On
the other hand, when the hurt heart goes unchecked and unhealed, it soon leads
to unstoppable, unrestrained complaints, condemning, prejudices,
anger…sometimes even against God. What has caused your sensitive areas, your
sore spots?
The Lord
once said to me to tell his people:
“I love you so much. Because you suffer, does not mean I
don’t love you. When a parent watches his child trip and fall, it doesn’t mean
it was the parent’s fault, or that he doesn’t love the child because he didn’t
save him from tripping and falling.
But you say to me, I guess God doesn’t love me because He
left me trip and fall and I got hurt. A loving parent will encourage the fallen
child to get up and will tell him, he’ll be ok. If it is needed, he’ll dress
and bandage the wound. And it heals.
And so, just as a loving parent, I encourage you to learn
from those events that take place in your life. Come to me and let me hold you
and bandage your wound. For have I not said, I bind up the wounds of the
brokenhearted?”
It’s time
to yield your inner hurts, the pain that lingers in your heart, the offenses
that still fester and the insults that still smart - to the one that says let
me carry the burden for you. Surrender them all to the Lord, because he cares
for you. He can handle them all. His heart is not too small or his arms too
short that he can’t carry them for you. Surrender to his love and to his help.
Surrender to the leading of the Holy Spirit. Surrender to wisdom and not to
pride.
Yield
those open wounds, and the wounds still festering and hiding under scabs - to
your Lord. Let Jesus release in you the ability to forgive, to draw out the
infection. Let him sooth them with his healing balm of love for you. It’s time
to yield and surrender, because it’s true – he came to heal the brokenhearted.
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