One time, I did this totally un-Christian thing. I hid something behind the picture frames on my walls. Because it was unseen, potential new home dwellers never knew what lurked there as they walked through my house. Heck! I halfway forgot what was back there too. But on move-out day, when I took the frames down, I saw them: deep wall gouges. Ones never fixed. Ones left behind.
Welcome home! You need to re-plaster your walls!
We walk around just like this. A beautiful picture covers our deeply wounded selves.
We carry these wounds:
We don’t meet the standard of the woman we should be.
We are always falling short of other’s expectations for us.
We don’t match the persona of the woman who can do it all.
We are unworthy of receiving unconditional love.
Underneath the glass cover, no matter how beautiful or sophisticatedly adorned we are, our smile is not as real as we pretend it is. We hurt. We angst.
Our internal pictures tell a different story.
What picture is behind your picture? Is shaped like a wound? What lies deep in your soul? Loneliness? Isolation? Discouragement? Doubt?
May I tell you today, Jesus is strong enough to heal. He still is.
He still works. He still frees. He still sets free. The ancient of days is not so ancient of days that your internal wounds are outside his repair, today.
He loves you. He has chosen you to be in his care, and that means he wants to care for you. What would it look like to let him take what you’ve hidden so long?
To let it belong to God? I believe this blog post is a knock on the door of your soul: let God in.
What if you were to believe: God really heals and right now, he is actively healing you? What would it look like to let his freedom in?
“He sent His word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20)
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Jesus is a great plaster repair man 🙂 So grateful that my hidden places are not hidden from Him, and that nothing is too great for Him.
(P.S. I think you meant to say Stolen Jesus is now available 🙂 )
Kelly, such a beautiful post. It reminded me of that old book, My Heart, Christ’s Home. As I took your analogy to the next step in my thoughts, after I allow Jesus into that room in my heart with the gouged walls, He fixes us. Heals us. But we have to let Him into our pain first.
I loved this post!
Morning Kelly, thank you for your reminder that God is a healer and stands ready to heal the broken hidden places of our lives….even those we tucked away behind the picture on the walls of our lives. And thank you for hosting! Have a blessed week!
Ah yes, those pictures frames covering the deep gouges. Thank God we have a Savior who sees and heals. I’ve had numerous experiences where the Holy Spirit breathed truth into me, filling in those gouges I didn’t even realize existed. He’s faithful.
Jami’s book is one of my favorites of 2017. I reviewed it today, and I can’t wait for more women to discover her brave, funny, powerful voice in Stolen Jesus. Thank you, Kelly, for introducing me to her through your blog!
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Convicting, startling words, and so needed. By nature, we are hiders and concealers. Thanks be to God for looking behind the picture frames and healing the gouges by grace.
“What picture is behind you” spoke to me today. Thank you for that beautiful reminder to allow God into our wounds . Let Him breathe life and healing
So glad to link up with you today.
Diana
I’m so thankful that He’s working all the time healing us behind the scenes 🙂 Praying we all continue to let Him work so we can be the vessels He needs to work through.
~Sherry Stahl
xoxo
God sure can do all things. I have seen him do the impossible. We have an amazing God but we must put our trust in him.
God’s masterpiece hangs over a child’s scribbling. ( I am doing a 31 Day Writing Challenge, my link connects to the topic of Angels, this one link will let you see all 31 as they are added. )
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