being thrown into a pit

"Satan has no more effective weapon in his arsenal than to make us question- not so much whether God exists, but whether God is really good.  He knows God alone possesses the power and passion for us to be restored after nearly being shredded in life's killing fields.  For Satan to talk us into distrusting God and distancing ourselves from Him is to keep us broken, ineffective, and frankly, out of his hair.  Life offers no few invitations to fall into this kind of distrust." - Beth Moore

Life is hard.  Plain and simple.  No buts about it.  I always find it funny when people say God helps those who help themselves or God never gives us things we can't handle.  These statements simply aren't in the Bible.  If those statements were more Biblically refined I think we would say God helps those who realize they cannot help themselves and are nothing without Him and God will never give us anything HE can't handle.

There are things in my past that I simply could not have gotten through without the Lord.  I often feel like a broken record talking about my past specifically about my mom's death and anger with God after her death- how abandoned and lost I felt.  But... "...my past is part of who I am.  Part of who God is making me." - Beth Moore.  It's a past He entrusted me with to use for His good to help His children.

"Oh, beloved, you keep thinking about how things might have been had that not happened.  You have the capacity to be a ten times neater person healed than you would have been just plain well.  Your wealth of experience makes you rich.  Spend it on hurt people." - Beth Moore

I love when God speaks directly to your heart through a person.  Tears almost always come because I feel humbled and at the same time awestruck that God knew exactly what I needed to hear.  He knows the tender places of our hearts that need to be acknowledged.  Beth Moore is one of those people He speaks through to me hence the abundance of quotes by her.  I will end this post with one more quote by her.  What I love most about the quote to come is the permission that God gave me to get up out of my pit because Christ rose up out of His pit (the grave).  Those are fightin' words!

"Christ got down next to us in the grave, stayed the better part of three days, and then got up...so we'd have permission to get up too.  And start living life.
"Beloved, let this one sink in deeply:  if God allowed you to be thrown into a pit, you weren't picked on; you were picked out.  God entrusted that suffering to you because He has faith in you.  Live up to it.  All the way up." - Beth Moore