As we continue in our I Am series, looking at our identity in Christ, we want to share a blog by Dawn Emeigh, Guest Services Director, on how God has taken her story and helped her move from victim to victor. You can hear her whole talk from the More Women’s Conference here.
I once heard a speaker say there are two types of people in this world: Those who live as victims and those who live as victors.
When life has handed you tough circumstances, difficult challenges, abuse at the hands of another — maybe someone you thought you could trust — the human response is to live mired in that victimhood. Often we will tell anyone who will listen our sorrowful stories and blame others in an attempt to gain love, sympathy or understanding.
You might be saying in your mind right now….easy for you to say… you have no idea what I have been through. And you’re right…I don’t know. But one thing I DO know is that if we are in Christ, we serve a God who is powerful and mighty and perfect and just. He isn’t afraid of your story, your affliction or your heartache.
We serve a God who says in Joel 2:25 that “I will repay you and restore to you the years that the locusts have eaten.” A God who says to each one of us, “The thief comes only to steal, kill and destroy; but I have come so that you may have life, and have it abundantly.” (John 10:10) We serve the God who promises us in Isaiah 61 that He came to “bind up the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, and set the prisoner free, to comfort those who mourn, to bestow on us a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy in exchange for mourning, the garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.”
This is the God we serve: He is powerful. He is able.