What Are You Throwing Away?
I love Ezekiel 16. Today, God took me to verses 4-5: “ On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised ” (NIV). As I thought about that, He simply said to me, “You have to be taught to throw yourself away.” My parents loved me from the beginning, but a lot of things happened in my life to make me feel like one who was despised. I began from an early age to consider myself disposable and threw away decades exploring avenues to fulfill that expectation. I’ve experienced an incredible amount of spiritual and emotional restoration since that time. Right now I’m using Pastor Kathy Gray’s Journal to Freedom to find even more. But what can be done to raise a generation that doesn’t walk into adulthood...