Have you ever found yourself  asking Why did I have to hurt like
this?

It’s a question Sharon has often asked, while trying to make sense of the physical abuse, incest and other horrific events that accompanied her childhood.

Feeling for years that God hated her, she buried her pain deep inside and blamed a god she believed was just like her angry, abusive, manipulative father.

Until the day she had to reshape her understanding of Who God is.

In my newest book, When a Woman Overcomes Life’s Hurts,  I offer “10 Steps to Healing and Wholeness.” This week’s is: Reshape your understanding of God  because He is unlike anything you’ve encountered before.

You can reshape your understanding of God by getting into His Word and discovering, as Sharon did, that:

• He  isn’t a god who considers us “bad” but One who said in His Word: “I have loved you with an everlasting love” (Jeremiah 31:3).
• He isn’t a god who points his finger at us and waits to punish us. He is, instead, the God who said in His Word, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you …thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope” (Jeremiah 29:11).
• He isn’t a god who desires that we be punished. He is the God who is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9).
• He isn’t a god who will withdraw his love from us if we do something he doesn’t like. He is the God who says nothing can ever separate us from His love. (Romans 8:38).

Is it possible that, through your hurts and heartaches, you have perceived God as being very different than He actually is?  Maybe you haven’t done that intentionally. Perhaps, like Sharon did, you just put a face on Him that resembles someone who has hurt you. But the only way you can let God heal your heart of the hurts you’ve experienced is to understand and get to know Him as He really is. As Scriture says He is.

Get into God’s Word, my friend, and find out who He really is. You may find that it makes all the difference in the world when it comes to your healing and wholeness.