****Trigger Warning; Sexual Assault Victims***
For those of us who have endured sexual assault...It is very
difficult to find healing, even if we are strong believers in Christ and His
love for us. Personally, I have struggled in feeling very alone for many
obvious reasons...but primarily, because I have never imagined or should I say,
never understood, that Christ could understand, truly, what it was and how it
felt. He did come to earth, after all, as a man. And it was, for me, by the
hand of a man that I was so cruelly treated. Until, by the grace of God, he
revealed to me His complete union with my pain and an understanding of my
experience hidden within His horrendous passion and death, which He endured not
only on my behalf, but even on the behalf of the men who used me.
When you are feeling down inside you that heart wrenching ache
of emptiness...Remember the moment just before His crucifixion, when Christ was
stripped of his clothes. He felt the cold on his skin and the pain of his flesh
tearing from Him, as you did. He felt the humiliation, the exposure and the
helplessness. And He too, shortly thereafter was thrown down, against the hard
wood of the cross and stretched out as you were stretched. Unite the ache
inside with His ache. Give it all to Him. For Jesus has one thing in that moment of time
that you did not. Power. You were made powerless by the world, and for our
sake, Jesus allowed himself to be powerless as well . Yet he triumphed over the
sin of other men. He overcame the
world, He overcame even...death. He will also give you strength to overcome.
You think He does not understand it. But think back. Did you
not feel simultaneously that you were both pinned down and lifted up? Stretched
out for the world to mock you? For the world to disfigure you? To laugh and spit,
watching you writhe in agony? Was not evil thrust upon you, in that dark
moment, and were you not pierced inside with a sword? Did you not feel death?
Did you not beg "my god my god, why
have you abandoned me?!"
He was there with you.
He is always there, for you are indeed his child. He has
carved you in the palm of His hand.
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