I'm simply going to quote from my pastor from this past Sunday. The truths spoken are very pertinent to my life and are things that God has been working in me for awhile. He keeps reminding me that I am his child and that I must find my identity in him.
Here's a link to the sermon if you're interested in listening to the whole thing. Otherwise, here are the things that spoke to me.
"I think there is something amazingly redemptive about seeing people's healed scars."
"I think when we bring our sin, our brokenness, our scars, and the effects of them, to the cross, to Christ, and to community...the healing that is found there can do amazing things."
"I think partially what it means to die with Christ and be raised to new life, is to mean I'm going to let the part of me that is broken, that rules the way that I function: die. I'm going to bury that self; I'm going to bury this self that believes that I am a certain way or a certain person...and I'm going to let that part die. I'm going to find my identity in Christ, the risen Messiah."
"In the posture that God has sent Christ, scars and all, so he sends us. We have been given new life, we have risen from the dead, and we still bear the scars."
"When you've found healing, don't be afraid to bear your scars. Show them for what they are: evidence of God's grace, evidence of God's healing. It it quite often the thing that we think is most wrong with us, is the thing God uses to transform the world. It's in our weakness, he is strong."
"Because Christ is resurrected our brokenness and our wounds can find healing."
