Breakthrough to something Beautiful…

That moment when you are brought to tears…it isn’t to break you down…it’s to break you through.

Yesterday it hit me. A flood of tears.  God was revealing something to me.  Something deep, something profound.  The emotions that surfaced felt heavy and confusing.  They were hard to understand and impossible to control.

I could push back everything that God was trying to lead me through…OR I could trust that He was about to do something in my heart that He’s been preparing me for.  I realized in that moment that I didn’t have to understand.  I didn’t have to make sense of it. I grabbed ahold of every emotion that was buried in my heart.  God brought them all to the surface. He then asked to break them open one at a time.  At first, I didn’t know how.  These emotions had been buried deep within me for so long.  I didn’t know how to open them up.

As I trusted God to open them up, I then could let go. The tears fell. As they were released, I was completely restored. Because in that moment God was holding on. As I let go of every emotion, God opened them up. And something beautiful happened. This was the moment of breaking through.

God can work beauty into the things in life that we have buried.  Geodes form in nature in the spaces below the surface.  Spaces buried deep.  In that space, a hardened shell begins to form.  Once water flows through the hardened shell, crystals form inside.  From the outside, the geode appears to be a hardened rock.  But once opened, it displays the beauty deep inside.  Beauty that was formed within the hardened space.

What if we were to let our tears flow through the hardened spaces of our soul?  What if each space that has been buried deep was given to God?  Only to be flooded with tears of healing?  What could God create if we would surrender those spaces to him? Inside every space of bitterness and resentment…God could create something beautiful. 

Forgiveness.  Redemption. Restoration. Healing.

Tears in the moment feel like a break down, but as we lean into God…they become a break through.

The Bible says in Psalms 126 that those who sow in tears will reap songs of joy. In Isaiah 41:10  we are reminded of this: “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

God will never lead you to a place of letting go without holding you tight.  He will never ask you to open up without holding onto you with His righteous right hand.  He will never leave you, forsake you or abandon you. He is creating something beautiful.

Trust. 

Trust that God will lead you to the break through, one tear at a time.  In the letting go, He is always holding on. Trust that in the breaking down, He is leading you to break through.

Break through to something beautiful.