You Make Me New

This weekend I was challenged to dig deep into my past.  I was challenged to look back into memories that I didn't realize I had repressed.  While I am not going to say that it was easy or fun, I do believe that it was beneficial.  I have a story.  Yes, its kind of messy and it has its fair share of heartache.  But its all mine.  Something that God has made clear to me recently is the power of testimony!  He is perfecting me into who he wants me to be.  I have a specific testimony that can be beneficial to others.  You see, we are being sculpted by God's sovereign hand.  For those of you who don't know me, I am a perfectionist.  In my own life I strive to have the control, and I strive to reach perfection (whatever that is).  God's word says "he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust".  We aren't expected to be perfect, but we are expected to run after our Lord with a sort of reckless abandonment.  He wants everything we have.  He has removed our transgressions from us, and his steadfast love is our freedom.

He makes us beautiful.

You make beautiful things out of dust ~ You make beautiful things out of us