Safe Thus Far

You want God's promise that nothing bad will happen to you and yours, but Child, you no longer count as severe the truly intense sorrows you have already faced.  And because you now undervalue both their intensity and God's strength that afforded you passage through them, you have not given Him the credit that would afford you a measure of peace now.  The grace that has brought you safe thus far has been underestimated and underappreciated by you.  You laugh, you eat, you sleep, and you are not haunted by the horrors you have faced. 

Trust in the Lord, my dear one.  You are entering a spacious place.  Do not be afraid.  

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

--Deuteronomy 33:27 

This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
--Isaiah 43:16, 18-19

 

Another Word Regarding Humility

Humility and humiliation are two very different things; do not confuse the two or believe that the Lord intends you the harm of humiliation.  Humility is a virtue adopted by choice; it is a determination to put the needs of others ahead of one's own. By contrast, humiliation is like a weapon in the hand of a bully.  When other people seem to assume that everything about them is of greater importance and value than anything about you, the Lord isn't in this.  He will never tell you that you are less important to Him than someone else. 

Considering others better than yourself does not mean you are unaware of their sins, but that you trust the Lord for your needs and thus do not need to fight for your own rights. It becomes safe for you to consider others ahead of yourself, because you trust the Lord to be your defender. Humility, for a Christian, is not a choice to be inferior, but rather is an outward expression of the confidence you have in Christ to take care of you. God does not want you to see yourself and your needs as being of less worth than those of others.  He want you to rest in the confidence that you are of great value to Him, and that He will not forsake you or forget you.  You have food they do not know of.  Do you see it? 

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,  and his incomparably great power for us who believe.

--Ephesians 8:17-19a