Cutting and Pasting Truth
For the longest time, decades now, I was weighed down by my blunders, a weak description of regrets, failures, and stupid things I’ve said. Added to the gaffe have been my fears, doubts and serious mood changes.. Honestly, I didn’t know how messed up I was, except that I was miserable most of the time and asking God for forgiveness all of the time. I am a Christian so it has been natural to ask for help with those battles, but why was I aways repenting the same things?
It seems we design our own story and forget God has already written it. Perhaps, like me, you’ve looked back over your life and see nothing but rubbish, repitition and ruin. Oh! How the devil loves to mess with our minds, and hearts and, especially, our faith. Our story, it seems, is a bad novel, when truthfully it is the best story ever because it is God’s story in us.
As I wrote the stories in “Cutting and Pasting Truth” and began sharing them as Devotionals, I realized that every detail of my life had some truth from God intertwined within it. This was a surprise because I had only seen black blotches of failure and fear in my story. When I reflected on the details of what happened during each season of my life in the light of the stories from the Bible, the parables Jesus taught and the example He left us, I saw the golden thread of Truth tying it all together. I called it my “Godography” - God’s story in my story.
If kept in the dark, our stories eat us alive. Empowerment is the by-product of the realization that we’ve found God and He has chosen us.When we surrender ourselves to our Creator, the details of our yesterdays become God’s glory today. Our Godography has been written by our Creator, and it is beautiful indeed!
Shortly after my epiphany. I envisioned the devotionals I had written, along with excerpts from the season-stepping observations I journaled, to be put in a book. Why should I keep God’s beautiful healing Truths to myself? Miraculously (with sprinkles of angst, hundreds of rewrites and overwhelming support), my book, “Cutting and Pasting Truth” was launched! Very soon it will be available as an e-book and the big release date for the hard copy is February 2022. God’s goodness to me is my gift to you; to Him be all the glory!
“The nature of everything involved in the life of God in us is only discerned when we have been through it and it is in our past.” (Oswald Chambers, “My Utmost for His highest”)
Where Satan has lied to us through our pain, sorrows and despair, let us paste the Truth of God on the “old things passed away, and behold, the new has come”! (II Corinthians 5:17)