My Fractured Foot

About 2 years ago, I fell. Surprise, surprise my friends would say. I fall alot. I fall often. Thankfully, I am vertically challenged so I don't have too far to fall. When I fell, I fractured my foot. And aside from wearing a very ugly shoe for awhile, it looks perfect. But I can still feel it sometimes. That foot has never been the same. If I wear heels for too long, only that foot gets swollen. The doctor said it was healed. It looks healed. But I know it's there. I can feel it.

I think about my foot...and realize that even though it was healed, it is still a problem for me. It is still an issue that I have, and will probably always have. But it was something that I could not heal on my own. Oh, I tried. I tried icing it, not walking on it, but eventually I had to see the doctor. I couldn't do it by myself.

Just like I couldn't heal my foot by myself, you can't heal the issues in your life by yourself. You can try, and believe me we all do. We think that we can handle things on our own. We are prideful and determined to be independent and take care of it. We depend solely on our sheer will. But just like the break of a bone, sometimes things don't heal correctly. Sometimes they need to be re-broken. And it hurts. The issues that you face in your life that need to be 're-broken' hurt. It's not easy. But it's during those times that we need to learn to lean on God, and depend on only Him. Just because you face difficult times, doesn't mean you are out of the Will of God. God will break you. That brokenness that you are feeling and going through...pushes us to God. So He allows it. He encourages it. He wants it. He knows we need it. We need it to know Him more. We need it to show others His Grace. His love. His mercy. That He is the ultimate Healer. Which is why we should not be worried and anxious during these times.

That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:10

The only thing left to do is humble yourself. Humble yourself before The Lord and know that His knowledge for your life is greater than anything you could imagine. I mean, remember who we're talking about here! The God of the universe! He has helped you before, He will help you now, and will continue to.

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 11:24

"But prayer really works. It changes things. It moves mountains. Have faith, because God is faithful. Trust Him, because He is trustworthy. Focus on the spiritual battle that's more real than what we see, hear, and feel. Call upon the Father who loves you, and persist until you see Him move. He will. He promised." - Janet Folger

So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10