The Art of Committal
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” –Psalm 147:3
O My child, lay your heart in my hand, and let me heal it. Yes, let me gather up your tears, for they are precious to me. You have not been suffering alone, but I myself have been near you all along the way. My heart has felt all that you have felt. You do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with your sufferings, but one who experienced every grief and human emotion common to all people. In the midst of these painful experiences, he did not sin. Therefore, He is one who is able to help you (Heb 2:18).
He is one, who having walked the same path Himself, is able to teach you how, in the midst of these human experiences of hurts, frustrations, loneliness, and heartache, you may rise above the natural tendencies to fall into the sins of self-pity, self-reproach, depression of spirit, resentment, and the like.
It is not easy. Not only is it not easy, but in the natural, in the flesh, it is impossible. But the same grace I promised to the Apostle Paul to help him bear his affliction, this same grace I will give to you ( 2 Cor 12:9).
You may bring the whole of your burden to me. I will help you as the days go by, and as the trials come and go; and as the learning process continues, I will teach you the spiritual secrets of the art of committal.
For in complete and repeated committal lies the key to victories that can be thus more easily won, less painfully achieved, and more quickly gained, so that the valleys become less deep and less dark, and more quickly passed through.
“Man is born,” it is written, “to trouble, as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). This is true as surely as rain falls and snow is cold. But it is equally true, and gloriously so, that I have promised to deliver you out of all your troubles.
So will you now take the first step in this experience of committal and give me your heart?
Make it as tangible a transaction as possible, and visualize your own hand laying the physical organ of your heart in my hands. Say to Me, “Take this, and Wonderful Lord, and do with it as pleases You.”
-Come Away My Beloved
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” –Psalm 147:3
O My child, lay your heart in my hand, and let me heal it. Yes, let me gather up your tears, for they are precious to me. You have not been suffering alone, but I myself have been near you all along the way. My heart has felt all that you have felt. You do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with your sufferings, but one who experienced every grief and human emotion common to all people. In the midst of these painful experiences, he did not sin. Therefore, He is one who is able to help you (Heb 2:18).
He is one, who having walked the same path Himself, is able to teach you how, in the midst of these human experiences of hurts, frustrations, loneliness, and heartache, you may rise above the natural tendencies to fall into the sins of self-pity, self-reproach, depression of spirit, resentment, and the like.
It is not easy. Not only is it not easy, but in the natural, in the flesh, it is impossible. But the same grace I promised to the Apostle Paul to help him bear his affliction, this same grace I will give to you ( 2 Cor 12:9).
You may bring the whole of your burden to me. I will help you as the days go by, and as the trials come and go; and as the learning process continues, I will teach you the spiritual secrets of the art of committal.
For in complete and repeated committal lies the key to victories that can be thus more easily won, less painfully achieved, and more quickly gained, so that the valleys become less deep and less dark, and more quickly passed through.
“Man is born,” it is written, “to trouble, as the sparks fly upward” (Job 5:7). This is true as surely as rain falls and snow is cold. But it is equally true, and gloriously so, that I have promised to deliver you out of all your troubles.
So will you now take the first step in this experience of committal and give me your heart?
Make it as tangible a transaction as possible, and visualize your own hand laying the physical organ of your heart in my hands. Say to Me, “Take this, and Wonderful Lord, and do with it as pleases You.”
-Come Away My Beloved
posted by Unknown at 3:19 PM
3 Comments:
Sweet Jolie, I love how God uses you in my life! You have no idea how this spoke to my aching heart, every... single... word.
Thank you for sharing God's heart with me tonight.
I love you dearly.
very good
Leaning on something that you thought was solid and having it collapse beneath you bears all kinds of resemblance to the sting of sharing pain or need with another set of human eyes and watching them dart away in inadequate and self conscious fear. Jesus has the only set that have never looked away or even flinched from the most appalling rivers of human need, pain, and hostility flowing from the eyes of any who have ever dared to look into His. He is then the only one who saves us from that self love/self hate see saw torture chamber that racks the soul when we are both guilty and infuriated that we need that kind of strength but cannot give it to others who are equally or even more in need. Thank you for not letting the word, "salvation" be cheap and one dimensional in your heart and please keep letting those eyes of His look through yours. Who knows how many of His beautiful drowning children you may yet pull from the quick sand of fake love and cheap thrills.
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