I could feel them everywhere. Hands. Hands that were pressing on me with all of their might, trying to crush me from the outside in. It was as if I could feel the individual finger tips digging into my skin. It didn't matter where I went or how deeply I breathed, I still felt like I was being crushed. Though the morning had started out fine, something shifted and gradually everything grew dark and the pressure got worse. I felt like I was being shoved into a cage; into a prison.
Read MoreYour hurt is there to break your heart for what breaks God's. He allows it to come to make you whole and strong in Him. It's the process of pruning; the process of God stripping away; a process of cutting back the things that are drawing our attention away from Christ. And those cuts... the deep ones that take you down to the root, down to your knees... they hurt the worst.
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