If you’ve ever gone through a season where you feel like who you are, like everything you believe, is being taken apart, piece by piece, and laid out in what seems like a broken mess, you know how painful it is. 

There are times when we’ve lived in something so long, God has to take us apart to get it out. Like a knife or a watch that needs a complete going over, sometimes He takes us gently in hand, and undoes every piece, looking it over, fixing what’s broken, cleaning things out, before putting us back together in even better working order. But during that process, of feeling ripped apart, of feeling unmoored with nothing to hold onto, it’s easy to forget it’s a process that won’t last forever. It’s easy to forget Who’s handling us. It’s easy to get lost in fear, doubt, hopelessness, depression, and be stuck in anger and bitterness, especially when that process lasts longer than we want it to, or think we can handle. 

But, if you’re there, or you’ve been there and lost sight of what God was doing and got stuck, turn back. Remember who you are. Remember who your Father is. Open your hands and heart and decide to trust Him with the work. Let Him finish what He’s started in you. 

The Lord reveals our brokenness to us to bring healing, not hopelessness. Decide to release what’s broken to Him instead of clinging to the brokenness and pain like it’s your identity. It isn’t. 

Wholeness is your identity. Healed is your identity. Holy is your identity. Free is your identity. 

To live in the truth, we have to decide to let Him finish the cleansing and the healing, to trust Him with the pain of it, the mess of it, and let Him put us back together, more fit for the work He made us to do.