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I was struck by this man’s quote crafted from his own experience of pain and brokenness, revealing a journey through his valley of death, while uncovering a resurrection and ascension into his higher calling that was waiting for him in the wings. A realization that he was made for something larger than he could have imagined.

The higher the calling, the greater the preparation!

Your life has not been full of setbacks and injustices; but rather, a training ground for integration, regulation, empathy, and grace. You are more like Jesus because of it!

Your purpose is established on a foundation of struggle and failure. Your purpose is revealed when Jesus meets you in your story and exposes His healing Grace in your mind, heart, and relationships. You are only enhanced and strengthened when Jesus uses your struggles as teaching aides – a reminder that when you are weak, then He makes you strong.

Enjoy your story today! It is leading you to your higher calling!

Rod Suydam, whose quote this is, holds a powerful story of God’s redemptive Love. He dares the reader to find Jesus within their own story. I am drawn to the parallel between Mr. Suydam’s challenge and the Words of the Sovereign God.

You see, your story has been written and published in the Heavenly realm by the God named Love.

Love looked upon your unformed body as He anointed your substance with His Divine seal. Anticipating your arrival, the Lord bookmarked the page that bears your name, identifying the moment you enter the scene according to your appointed days.

In the Father’s infinite Wisdom, He knew the plot between your wandering and the Accuser’s attempts to steal your innocence and bargain away your glory, but the Author of the Book holds the power to rewrite the false twists in the storyline that you have mistakenly claimed as yours. The Savior knows the great burdens that have been laid upon you in this world. He longs to restore your wounded heart and broken spirit, rearranging the building blocks of your story, in order to revive the original Divine Script.

Will you allow the Lord to forge Goodness out of the evil that has touched you in this fallen world; or will you choose to have the stolen version of your narrative engraved in rock forever?

Which version of your story will be your final cut?

Insight provided through Psalm 139:16, 56:8, 119:10; 2 Chronicles 24:27; Hebrews 12:2; Job 19:23; John 10:10; and Ephesians 1:13.

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