Welcome to your Healing Place podcast with Linda and Mindy. It is our desire to address common concerns of how abortion and faith intersect in order to validate the emotional pain and grief that abortion can bring and give hope that recovery is possible.
How can we put shame in its place? How can we become victorious over shame?
There's so many ways but they all point back to Jesus Christ. Psalm 25 2 through 3 reads, Oh my God I trust in you. Let me not be ashamed. Let not my enemies triumph over me. Indeed let no one who waits on you be ashamed. Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.
There's some interesting words here that tell us and insights that tell us how we can overcome shame and one is by trusting in Jesus Christ. Giving your life to him, trusting him that he is Lord and he knows what's best for us.
But the other one is found in the word wait where it says let no one who waits on you be ashamed. It's a prayer and a plea but it's also a truth. And that word has such a really deep and rich meaning the word in its original language and just by way of disclaimer I'm no theologian but I have a Bible app and the Bible app that I have allows me to look at those words and what the original meanings meant.
When I look up this word it means to bind together. It means to look for, to hope for, to expect, to look eagerly for, to endure, to linger for, and to look for patiently. That has a much richer and broader understanding of what waiting on the Lord is. And when we put our trust in the Lord we wait on him.
Will he let us struggle sometimes? Yes and we see that in the story of Jacob and when he wrestled with God. God let him wrestle with him. We're never gonna overcome God in that sense but he understands the struggle that we have in our flesh and he's instructing us here that if we bind ourselves to him, think of a rope or a braid, you know, if we bind ourselves to the Lord, he will eventually release us from this struggle and we will be released to be stronger.
That peaceable fruit of righteousness will be found in our lives. We will be able to now point back to him or up to him or forward to him. Whatever your position here is, we will able to be able to point others to him and say, look what Jesus has done for me.
And because we are now stronger than we were before, we can have more confidence in our faith assurance of who God is and what he, and he always shows up.
Our timing is different. We have a different time schedule than he does but he always shows up and he always shows himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are loyal to him.
So if you're struggling today with shame because of a past abortion, I encourage you to put your trust in the Lord, turn your heart to him, bind yourself to him, learn about him, know who he is, but as you're doing so,
expect him to come and to answer you and to give back to you.
Linger in his word. Linger with those who know him. Get to know the God who saved you and he will show up and he will release you from this struggle. And then he's going to use your story for something great.
Thank you for listening. This podcast was inspired by the many conversations had through the years with women struggling from the emotional pain associated with abortion.
Thank you for allowing us into your healing journey.
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Feb 6 202510 mins