Rekindle and Restore:

Ever feel like parts of you are irretrievably burnt out, broken, or lost?

Years ago on a long weekend getaway, I was catching up on my homework for a Bible study and came to Deuteronomy chapter 30. I had just told my husband that I felt like I’d lost part of who God made me to be. I’d been exhausted, confused, unfocused – some of the passion for Him that has always burned hot inside me felt fragmented, like a campfire kicked and scattered. In that place of need, I read this:

“When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will RESTORE your fortunes, and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.” Deuteronomy 30:1-3.

To read about God gathering His nation Israel after they have been scattered, helped me believe He could gather the stray pieces of me from all the places I’d dispersed them. And because of the novel that is so dear to my heart, “The Restorer,” I sat up and gasped when I came across the word “restore,” in my reading for the day.

Then, in that wonderful way that God often reinforces something He’s speaking to my heart, the next day Ted and I read Psalm 71 as our morning prayer.

“Your righteousness reaches to the skies, O God, you who have done great things. Who, O God, is like you? Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will RESTORE my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.” Psalm 71:19-21

Can I get an Amen?

I pray that whatever wounds you carry today, God will RESTORE your soul and lead you in paths of righteousness for His name’s sake. (My paraphrase of Psalm 23 — another great scripture on the theme of God as our Restorer.)

Blessings!
Sharon Hinck

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