[Discoveries] 02-07-07 Inner working

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*He restores my soul. -- Psalm 23:3*/

A few years ago, I tried coming up with a testimony to give at a small 
group I belong to. I couldn't figure out how to put my arms around what 
God has done in my life.

That bothered me. So many people have dramatic testimonies -- God saved 
them from booze - or God saved them from bankruptcy - or they left their 
lucrative business and followed God to the mission field - or whatever. 
My life has been transformed by God, but I couldn't figure out how to 
show that to someone.

Then it came to me. The real testimony is not that God got us out of 
debt (though He did), or that He kept me from getting run over by a 
train (though He did that also), or that He put money in my mailbox 
anonymously (yes, He did that too). The real testimony is this: He 
restores my soul.

I realized that my testimony is deeply personal. God showed up for me in 
the dark places of my heart - in my bitterness, in my frustration, in my 
feelings of inadequacy, in my loneliness, in my arrogance. With kindness 
that I confess I don't understand, God is gently rebuilding my identity 
so that I am less and less a lonely, paranoid, bitter man and more and 
more a son of God.

I hope and pray that you can say the same, that God is meeting you in 
your places of weakness and filling them with His strength.

May that be true for you today!

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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