When I was a little girl and living in the Island of Trinidad and Tobago, I loved to watch ducklings being born. The mother duck positioned herself right under our house so she would not be distracted. Picking at the egg-shells little by little until they had enough room to leave, the ducklings, with their waxed coating, left their darkly stained shells and entered the real world and were transformed into beautiful, fluffy, yellow ducklings. After enjoying the comfort of their mother for a time, they were ready to walk in single file behind her to learn how to bathe and find food. When they were old enough to be on their own, they left their mother to face the battleground where they and others, including turkeys and chickens, scrambled to obtain food that we tossed on the ground for all to eat. They learned life tools to survive.
Some of us are like those ducklings. We had the security of our mothers and fathers who prepared us for our future. Others did not have such an opportunity and were forced to walk dark, gloomy, winding roads of life alone. But regardless of our backgrounds, we made decisions either to leave the dark pieces of our lives behind and find life, or remain locked up in the “shells” of our past without a way out.
We face nagging issues of our past, for example: fear, insecurity and inadequacy, when we fail to pick our way out of our past to be what God has called us to be, free without ties. Moreover, when we allow these issues to take root, we can’t fight our battles with confidence nor position ourselves to receive God’s blessings, although God continually bestows them from heaven like manna on the ground.
In our struggles, God has shown us a way of positioning so we could receive His blessings. He said in 2 Chronicles 20:15, that the battle is not ours but His. God fights our battles. We simply need to believe in Him and stand on His promises. The Bible also states that God sent his Son Jesus to die for our sins. When Jesus Christ died, He paid our sin debts in full. We are complete in Him (Colossians 2:10) The word “Complete” connotes a fulfillment, that which God has made possible to us through His Son. Now, we can forego fear, insecurity, and inadequacy, all for which Jesus died.
God, through Jesus Christ, is perfecting us: showing us how big He is and how He can use the broken pieces of our past to accomplish His purposes. God wants to work in and through us, for his glory. He loves us more than our earthly mothers or fathers, We must trust God our Father and lean on His everlasting arms. We are secured in Him through Christ, His Son, who has given us the victory.
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