Do you need to be rescued?
How many of you feel like you need rescuing?
Rescued from shame?
Rescued from always feeling guilty?
Rescued from loneliness?
Rescued from not feeling like you measure up or have what it takes? Rescued from grief? Rescued from anger? Rescued from addiction, including food? Rescued from anxiety? Depression? Or constant worry…? Rescued from a relationship? Rescued from your own self promotion and resume? Rescued from others opinions and pleasing everyone? Rescued from perfection and striving? Rescued from your kids? Yes your kids who need a healthy momma who unplugs from them sometimes. The list could go on and on…
What IF I told you I know WHO can rescue you and HOW you could be rescued? Would you believe me? I’m holding nothing back here. Jesus Christ is The WHO, The HOW is the hands and feet of Christ… Community. And while I do believe immensely in the church (and if you’ve been hurt by one give it a second chance please), I mean “Safe-Sisters”.
I am talking to women directly here, we need each other. I know it’s scarier for some. This tainted world may have left us with trust issues. Or we think we will have more peace just trying this thing called life alone. Or maybe life is just so busy so we don’t intentionally ignore or stop to listen.
But, it’s so time for us all (speaking to my heart too) to rise up and see the woman that lives next to you, the mom who has a kid in your kid’s class, the woman that goes to the same gym and you smile and say hi to everyday, and heck even the woman that you go to church with or is in your bible study. It’s time to really see her beyond the mask we all like to wear. You know the one that says, “I’m fine.” with a half smile. It’s time to stop pretending, judging, and assuming. It’s time to stop thinking “you are strong.” No, He is strong. It’s time to take the pressure off. It’s not on us. It’s on Him. He is God. We are not.
It’s time for those that know this to tell that to another. It’s time for us to stop, notice, listen, reach-out, love, and help one another live in truth and victory. It seems like it might just be adding one more thing to our already long to do list. But we’d be surprised how much more light and productive we are not carrying the weight of our worlds solely upon our own shoulders and how blessed we‘d feel to help another. It even heals places in us.
A young mom killed herself just this week in the news suffering from postpartum. No one had a clue. A lady cried last night because after years of living here, she’s never felt connected. Another woman didn’t show up to an invite because her husband works long hours and she rarely gets a break much less a break to be in the presence of other sisters who she needs to love on her. And somewhere a young mom cried herself to sleep last night because her kid is out of control and she thinks it’s on her to fix him or because of her he’s like this. We tell ourselves that we are the only one that feels this way…one of the ways above. We then ask ourselves ‘what is wrong with us?’ We then convince ourselves we don’t belong. We believe that our struggle is not anyone else’s struggle. We are just messed up. And so it begins the ‘agreements’ and when I mean ‘we’ and ‘agreements’ I mean we have an enemy that wants nothing more for you to not feel loved, accepted, alone, and struggling.
And so he plants deep in the wounds all this negative trash (seedlings is what I call them) and we make agreements with it. I am here to to tell you it is all lies. And, you have the power to reject them. You have the power to rise up. If you belong to Jesus, you have the same power in you that raised Him from the dead. Don’t believe me? Read Romans 6:10-11. We were created by a BIG GOD. We serve a BIG GOD. And that BIG GOD wants you rescued. This is not about wanting more or being created for more. This is about wanting peace and you being created for a purpose.
*Originally published on FEBRUARY 26, 2019 on www.heatherhowell.com
