Come to the Table of RESToration
I hear Him say: (8.13.22)
I love you. I always have. I always will.
It’s not about what you’ve chosen to do with your life. It’s about what I have been preparing for you. You may have planned your way but I have directed your steps. Now let me reorder your steps according to my word again. Yes, the enemy has attempted to get you off course. It’s never too late to redirect. I’m recalibrating you back to true north, Jesus.
If you think you’ve ruined things beyond redemption, you haven’t. I am the master redeemer of all things. I can turn what the enemy meant to harm you for your good. Like Joseph, things may look different than you anticipated but I’m doing something so elaborate, so beautiful you just haven’t yet perceived it as such. I’m setting you up for success! This season your in is GOOD!
Place the broken pieces into my hands and let me make something exquisite out of it. It doesn’t always make sense at the outset, but someday things will begin to come together in your understanding. Your life is like a puzzle but you’re missing pieces. I haven’t given you those pieces yet. So don’t stress the things to come or waste your future trying to make sense of the past. Just give them to me and watch me direct your steps. Like a little child who holds tightly to their daddy’s finger. Come hold onto me and I will guide you. Even when it seems to make no sense.
I am doing a deep inner work in you. It’s a marvelous makeover. Only you are aware of it now, but soon everyone will see. You will be so filled with my glory, you will shine like Moses. You shine now, but it’s only just the beginning. I’m taking you from glory to glory and strength to strength.
This inner makeover feels to you like a slow dying of sorts. You’re in fact dying to the old ways. You’ve laid yourself on my altar. I’ve come to burn up the dross, removing the things that have hindered and sin that has entangled. It’s a process. It’s a returning to first love.
This inner makeover is learning the rested faith of childlikeness. It’s learning to trust me with every thing. It’s learning dependency and humility. It’s putting off independence and rebellion and running to me again and again all day long.
I’ve come when you’ve called me and the work has begun. I will complete the work I’ve begun in you. That’s the part that your hung up on. It’s MY work happening in you. Not the work you’re to do in and of yourself. You just get to surrender and respond to my love without having to earn it first. Like it says in Song of Songs 1:2, “Let him kiss me.” I ask you to let me kiss you. I see you hiding behind the lattice. I ask you to just sit in my presence and receive my affection even when you’d rather get up, like Martha. Let me love you even when it’s uncomfortable and you feel unworthy. Let me heal the broken pieces that feel unworthy of love. The selfishness that has come out of your heart is because of your hurt. Because of hurt and mistaken identity you have refused to receive my love but rather to serve me. I didn’t call you to be my servant, I called you to be my friend, my child. I’m extending my hand and lifting you up to your rightful place. You’re royalty. Straighten your crown. I’m removing the burden from your shoulders and your hands from the basket. I’m not the taskmaster slave driver. That’s the enemy. My yoke is easy. My burden is light.
So come and let me shower you again in my love. I am ever patient, tender, meek. and gentle. I’m not going to hurt you. I’m going to feed you and care for you. I’m going to restore your luster.
Colossians 1:20
Psalm 119:133
Song of Songs 1:2
Psalm 81:6
Exodus 1:11
Exodus 3:7
Revelation 1:6
Ephesians 2:6
Matthew 11:28
Ephesians 5:29
Kaeley ♡
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