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When Your Faith Falls Apart
By: Lysa TerKeurst
Trauma has a way of making us lose hope. We start to doubt God could ever bring new life from something this broken… this awful.
In my own life, there have been areas of devastation where I doubted God ever could bring restoration. I more than doubted—I flat-out told God I couldn’t believe Him for something so impossible.
I trusted Him to help me survive. But to bring life and restoration to my situation? I was too tired and traumatized by what I could no longer see to hope beyond the obvious.
Maybe you’re in that place right now—unable to hope beyond the heartbreak in front of you. That’s why I want us to look at what might seem like an unlikely passage of Scripture, but I promise it holds great hope.
In Ezekiel Chapter 47, we find the prophet Ezekiel sharing the details of a powerful vision God wants conveyed to His exiled people. It’s a promise of restoration spoken to hearts that might feel leery of letting hope in after spending many years in captivity.
But God wants them to know what He still wants us to know today: There is always hope with Him.
Toward the end of Ezekiel’s vision (a tour of the temple that begins in Ezekiel 40), he finds himself back in the inner court where he sees water trickling from the threshold of the temple. It’s a miraculous flow that grows from a trickle to a river so deep it cannot be passed through (Ezekiel 47:3-5). But it’s the water’s ending point that I want us to note.
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