When you lose your teenager who had a dream to play baseball and continually whispered to his mama during his last few days of life how much he loved her. And it’s so easy to listen to the pastor share about how we are created in God’s image and for us to be inspired to love more and love deeper when all is well. It’s so easy for us to clap along to the songs about how good our God is in those moments. It is so easy for us to stand in church and worship when there is joy in our hearts. My arms fell down, and I couldn’t stop the tears from falling. And Kylie is a 2 year old precious baby girl who has just relapsed, and her doctors have given up. Įthan was a courageous 13 year old boy who died only two days ago after his four year battle with cancer. God is calling you to trust Him, to tell your soul to wait in silence for God only.I raised my hands to the sky praising my God, and suddenly, I was overcome with emotion as I thought about Ethan Hallmark and Kylie Rowand. You can trust me to meet every need of your broken heart. I felt the Lord whispering in my ear, “Sharon, surrender to my care. Just as David’s grief over the betrayal of his son Absalom threatened to destroy him, my grief threatened to destroy me. Did the words of Psalm 123:2 encourage her to surrender to God’s purposes? The medicine of Scripture worked slowly, but eventually helped me hear the Lord’s call to surrender through scriptures like these. May it be to me as you have said,” reminded me that I have the same choice. Her declaration, “I am the Lord’s maidservant. The maidservant reminded me of Mary, the mother of Jesus, who responded to the angel’s announcement that she would give birth to God’s son, though she did not “know a man”. This picture of submission comforted me in my deep grief.
#Broken heart bordello taking care of the servant plus
Experiences and his personal relationship to God lead him to embrace this truth: God plus nothing equals everything. He rejects the idea of God plus one equals a majority. She expects her mistress to care for her, probably based on previous experience.ĭavid declares : For God alone my soul waits in silence.ĭavid has come to the end of himself. She “waits” on her mistress to generously care for her, similar to the tip that waitress hopes her customers will add to the bill. She “waits” on her mistress similar to a good waitress in a restaurant. She surrenders to the care of her mistress. This maidservant not only serves her mistress, but trusts her mistress to care for her. If we imagine the master or mistress as an employer, some take advantage of their employees, refusing to pay a fair wage or keep a safe workplace. Slave owners abused and continue to abuse their slaves in ways almost too horrific to imagine. We know this has not been and is not always the case. In a fair world, the responsibility of the master or mistress is to take care of their servant in a way that enables them to fulfill their responsibilities. A servant’s core task is to submit to the demands of the master or mistress. The second perspective is a picture of a submitted maidservant beloved by her mistress, serving obediently and waiting expectantly for her kind mistress to meet her needs. One, I imagined a maidservant, quietly serving her mistress, knowing what her mistress needed and proactively meeting her expectations. Long into the grief journey, Today’s Treasure caught my eye:īehold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, till He has mercy upon us. Sometimes I wished I could hook up a Biblical IV so that the medicine of Bible verses could constantly wash my soul and cleanse my heart of sorrow, fear, doubts, and anger. Often, those treasures came through the Scriptures. treasures, sent by God to remind me that He is the Lord my God and He calls me by name (Isaiah 45:2, 3). In the years after the deaths of our son Mark and his friend Kelly, I was ever on alert for messages, i.e.