Tearing Down the Fence

Today I’m tearing down the fence.

Lately I have been feeling weak. I am run down physically due to a couple of injuries and left feeling weak and emotionally drained. I have fallen to my knees praying to my Father because I am discouraged by so many things that are out of my control. I find myself not trusting Him. And then I close the gate and stay inside the fence I've built around myself to hide any brokenness that I may have.

We hide ourselves and our brokenness and we put up a fence. At first we think this fence is protecting us. We think it may protect us from the world or from people. But then the fence turns into a cage. The things that caused us to put up the fence initially become bound to us. How can we experience freedom if we are locked up? When we lock ourselves in we are unable to receive what God desires to offer us in that very moment.

Peace
Understanding
Grace
Comfort
Healing
Love
Hope

What if we were able to allow ourselves just to talk to someone and acknowledge our struggles? What if we asked a friend for prayer? WHAT IF WE FELL ON OUR KNEES AND ASKED THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE TO HEAL US. To intervene. To be our perfect Father and our Shepherd. To take this brokenness aside and make SOMETHING out of it.

We can all admit that we are broken. I know I will never reach this “level” of good. All the days of my life on this Earth will be a journey of the Lord molding me into the little girl He created me to be. He wants to make me new. And it never stops. Because He fully loves me. Because He fully knows me. He has a high goal for me to be conformed to His image. And our Lord has the same plans for YOU.

Jesus came for the poor, the brokenhearted, those who mourn, those with a faint spirit, and those who need healing. Jesus promises us that He will carry out into completion what He has started in us. Jesus will turn your brokenness into something glorious.

If we let Him… if we tear down the fence.