Weather Report From Heaven: Sunny and bright, with an abundance of light and lots of singing and rejoicing.
Scripture- “So do not be afraid of them, for there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known.”- Matthew 10:26
Insight: One of the first things I learned in my faith walk that was life altering was to bring all of the deepest pain in my life out into the light for Jesus to heal it. What is concealed cannot be healed, so it needs to be revealed in order to be healed. If it remains concealed and not revealed, it not only can’t be healed, it will be a source of great pain and potentially have far reaching consequences. Things that we try to bury from our past are little, corrosive ticking time bombs that can cause great physical, emotional and mental sickness. Yes, it can be very scary and painful in its own right to bring things out into the light that have been buried for a long time, things we are not happy about because of our own actions or someone else’s, but the alternative of repression is so much more devastating.
I saw this first hand in my own faith journey when Christ invited me to reveal all the pain and disappointment I had experienced as a result of a broken relationship with my earthly father. I didn’t even realize all of the emotions that were tied to this fact, but when I began to bare my soul before my Lord, I instantly saw how I had always tried to compensate for this lack of affirmation from my father in many destructive ways. In essence I had been running away from the pain for 25 years, most of my life as at that time I was 37, when Jesus invited me to give it all to Him so He could heal it. What happened as a result of confronting head on what I had been concealing for 25 years, openly revealing it and then asking Jesus to heal was the equivalent of a Baby Grand Piano being lifted off of my back. All of my feelings of guilt, shame and unworthiness, all of my need to seek affirmation constantly which is a very tiring game, and all of my attempts to anesthetize the pain with anything that could temporarily dull it were instantly taken away. In their place was given a peace that I had never experienced before or realized was even possible. I was taught at that moment that Jesus alone was the answer I had been searching for my whole life. Only He had the power to restore what had been broken and lost. Only He could show me my worth was infinitely greater than I could ever have imagined because of what He did for me on the Cross. Only He could teach me how to forgive so that the anger of unforgiveness I had been carrying could be washed clean, and its toxic, corrosive effects removed from me before they killed me. He alone taught me to bring everything that was concealed that needed to be revealed so that it could be healed to Him and then He did it! He healed a lifetime of scar tissue and pain. His light sears the darkness and gives us new life. It is a life much lighter than the one that had kept us in bondage before, many times without us being aware. So don’t wait another day. Bring your deepest pain into the light for the Great Physician, Jehovah Rapha, to heal it.
These two verses below really spoke to me as I was understanding who I was positionally in the Lord. I was not an abandoned child, or a rejected child, or a child who was ignored, but rather I was a child of the most high God, and I was worth dying for. I had been in the darkness, but the Lord brought me into His glorious light where I could live all the rest of the days of my life. Claim these verses for yourself, they are meant to speak individually to every single person who calls on the name of Jesus: “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”- 1 Peter 2:9
“I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”- John 12:46
Praye: Jesus, thank You that You invite us to bring into the light all that has been concealed in the darkness. You heal all that is broken, You restore all that has been lost, and You make a way when there seems to be no way. You are truly an amazing God. Amen!
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