Is it the End?

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26)

As you end relationships and move forward with life, you find that your heart has suffered some damage.  There are some places in your heart that have become hardened and scabbed over from being wounded and inflamed. This is the time that God will begin to make some changes in you as you transition from one place in your life to the next.

Your spirit has been crushed from the broken relationship as well and needs to be repaired and restored into a healthy place.  You may even ask at this time, "Lord is this the end for me?  And will I ever love again or even will anyone ever love me again?  I assure you that it is not the end, but a beginning in that God can now prepare your spirit and heart to go further than you had gone before and higher than you imagined. It's not the time to jump into another relationship though tempting that may be to help distract you from the pain you need to deal with.  But come to terms with what has ended, allow God to minister to those areas of brokenness, and release the past so that you will not take its residue into the future.  Have a hush moment.  That means quiet everything in your life for a minute to let God be the only one talking.

There is no need to be discouraged by what has happened outwardly, because God is doing something on the inside of you, renewing you, and restoring you (2 Cor 4:16). You were limited to where he could take you before because the many distractions in your life which prevented you from walking in places God wanted to push you.  But now, the release from the past has given you a highway to the future.  Now that the mountains have been removed and come down, it’s time to step into the course God had ordained from the beginning.  Lift up your head! God is your shield and glory and the lifter of your head (Ps 3:3). So I say be encouraged sisters. 

The scabs will fall off; the inflammation will succumb to a normal state.  You will begin to see the bright places that God had planned from the beginning for you to come in to.  You will no longer walk in complacency or doubt about who you are or where you are going or even where you fit in.  God is dawning a new day (Luke 1:78).  He will in this next hour reveal himself as never before and give you clarity for what is to come.

It is not the end ladies, it is the beginning.