So often I have felt as though it was my pride that was keeping me from seeing my self the way God sees me and being able to accept compliments from other about anything they felt I did right. As I sit here early into the morning writing, Psalms 23 came to me.
Psalm 23:1-3
The Voice (VOICE)
1 The Eternal is my shepherd, He cares for me always.
2 He provides me rest in rich, green fields
beside streams of refreshing water.
He soothes my fears;
3 He makes me whole again,
steering me off worn, hard paths
to roads where truth and righteousness echo His name.
Verse 3. says he makes me whole. Another translations says he restores my soul. Well my soul has been shattered and over the years* pieces of it have been put back together and I am a whole lot closer to living out a manifested whole life than I use to be. However, I still have a ways to go. I said manifested whole life because I believe that everything I ever needed was completed at the cross, however for some reason some of us still don't wake up from life's emotional traumas and begin to function as though we were never affected. It could happen that way, but it may not. Let us be patient with the emotionally wounded, because sometimes they need friends that would carry them to Jesus, then go a step further and take them up to the roof top-make a whole in the roof, and set them down in front of Jesus (ref. Mark 2:1-12). That is persistence, love and true empathy!
*May not be theologically correct, but the best way that I could express it!
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