Turning It Around for HIS Good

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On this blog, I have often talked about using my & Justin's sufferings (with fertility, surgeries, heartbreak, pain, & the building up of patience through adoption) as a way to glorify the Lord.  That is the ultimate goal of this blog & the reason it was started.  Sometimes I do post my decorating ideas & more superficial things, but ultimately, my heart is that someone will see Christ in my pain... to see that there's more to this pain than hurting.  That there's a God-Man who came & suffered even more than I have to set this pain free.  And to use this pain and suffering as a testimony to others.  And that he still works miracles and wonders.  I am in no way a perfect Christian!!!  But I can honestly say that God has already (and I hope will continue to) use this broken, beat up "mess" of a person & her blog to draw others to Him, to help others in their own struggle.

Our church's middle school pastor posted this on his Facebook status today, which basically summarizes my heart for this blog:

as a leader and follower of Jesus I should expect to suffer, I mean Christ was brutally murdered on my behalf & endured mass rejection & ridicule before that.The question I have to ask myself is how do I take my "sufferings" and leverage it for the good of other people? Mark Driscoll says, "for God to use you Greatly, ...He must wound you deeply"... don't waste your sufferings...use them for the benefit of other people & their situations. There's broken people out there who are going through what you've already experienced...use it!

Don't sit in your sorrows.  Use your wounds and your pain ... turn it around for HIS good.

By the way... if you like what you read from our middle school pastor today, check out our church's website at www.whitleychurch.com!  You can watch sermons from the archives and just check out what Whitley Church is all about.  Come visit us if you're in the area & needing a church home or investigating Christ's message.

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  1. LesSeptember 30, 2010 at 7:58 AM

    I love that! "Don't waste your sufferings..." I recently wrote a post about that too.
    coupleinwaiting.blogspot.com

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