Hi, everyone! I received an email from a friend who shared a poignant experience I feel compelled to share with y’all. (My mother was Southern – live with it.) To put it in a nutshell, while on vacation my friend sprained his already injured toe on the bedframe and spent days in pain. Returning to his office after vacation, he was inundated with stacks of work and all kinds of fires to put out. Under stress, he gave in to the lies about his worth, his failures, etc. we all hear from the enemy when we are most vulnerable. While rehearsing those lies in his head, this is what he heard the Lord tell him.
“Son, you have been preoccupied with your injured toe for some time now. Your little toe, which is concealed in a pair of socks and then hidden in a shoe, is invisible to you and everyone around you. It may feel as if it is an insignificant part of your body, but in fact, one of it’s responsibilities is to balance your whole body as you walk. And now that it is hurting, your whole attention is focused on it. In the same manner, child, you are part of My Body and when you hurt I am preoccupied with you!”
Far too often I forget how deeply aware of and how intimately concerned is God with my “invisible” hurts. If you are hurting today, even with something others might consider insignificant, remember that God is preoccupied with your pain and He is there for you to lean on as you regain your balance.
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