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I am Vindicated

Psalm 17:15
“As for me, I will be vindicated and will see your face; when I awake, I will be satisfied with seeing your likeness.”
I will be vindicated, I will be free. When the Lord is our focus, He is able to begin His work of molding us into His likeness. However, this process of being molded more like Christ takes time, work, and it is almost always painful. Like the clay, we tend to fight the Lord at first because it hurts. We are hesitant to surrender the very aspects of our pasts that keep us distant from the One who so desperately wants to save us from our lives of utter destruction. However, once the clay understands the relationship it has with the Potter, it begins to become centered, allowing the Potter to do as He pleases without resisting. Why did the Lord create us to be such resistant beings? If only we truly realized what the Lord wanted to do in our lives, we would not be as reluctant to agree. Of course He is going to take away and of course it is going to hurt, but He gives back so, so much more and so, so much greater. Regardless of what it may be, we are all struggling. Recently, I have been struggling with being able to speak about my past because I have suppressed it to the point of comfortable numbness. However, listening to others has made me realize that it is not about what I have been through, it is about what the Lord has done to redeem me from it and the contentment I am able to receive from that. It is only when I am able to leave my burdens at the cross that I can move forward and find peace, becoming centered on His wheel. He is only able to give as much as we allow Him to take away, and the more we allow Him to take away the less painful it becomes to let go. 

 Application
Today, I will write “I am vindicated” on my arm to remember that I am free in Christ.

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