“These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:10-11).
My dear one, here we are, beginning again. I know you can feel lost, broken, distracted, weary, and downcast. I know you can feel overwhelmed and lonely and confused about the next step. There always feels like a next step, right? There always feels like there is another thing to do, another obligation to fulfill, another task to complete.
I know you hear words about trusting Me and resting with Me and surrendering to Me and looking to Me. I tell you these things, I know.
I know you wonder how to do that and even if you are capable. Habits are familiar. Routines feel safe. Starting from scratch? Abandoning all you know and believed before about how to do things well, successfully? That feels radical, uncomfortable, risky.
I feel risky.
Losing your life to gain Me feels the riskiest of all.
I know.
I know you.
I know when you sit and when you rise. I know your every thought, your every worry—every pause and breath and turn of your heart.
If the one who knows you better than anyone says He is safe—what else can be trusted?
Let Me rewrite the schedule, the agenda for this day. Let Me paint you a picture of open-space freedom where trusting Me becomes the new habit—the new heart born again in the woman I created. You are only as strong as you are weak. You are only as fearless and free as you are willing . . . willing to not have the answers, the plan . . . and surrender.
Yes, I have more to tell you. I have more to show you.
Keep listening.
I’ll quiet your heart.
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Christine Caine ministers in some of the darkest places of humanity, where women and children are trafficked, sold into forced labor, or begging on the streets. She brings the light and love of Jesus there—a message of freedom and rescue. So how does she keep pushing forward without letting the darkness overcome her? She says, “It hasn’t overwhelmed me because, with great intentionality, I’m tasting and seeing that the Lord is good all around me in creation.” Read her interview on Rapt to see how she guards her heart and which spiritual habits refresh her spirit most.
Being young doesn’t preclude people from suffering. You don’t have to live a certain number of years to have gone through tragedy and hurt. “We suffer like everyone else,” writes Allyn Bock. “But perhaps what’s different for Gen Z is our default response.” She goes on to say that when she went through the trauma of terrifying illnesses and multiple miscarriages, she didn’t reach out for help—she isolated herself. Instead of praying, she consulted Google. How can we break this cycle? Her article offers an ancient remedy.
Before I go, I want to leave you with a few simple words. May our hearts receive them this day. “I will fight for you / your heart wild and strong / until you believe it / the voiceless singing out / loud and free.” —“Sapphire” from my book of poems, The Uncovering.
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