gentle words

"Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of our hearts?" 

- Psalm 44:22

"Since my heart was embittered and my soul deeply wounded,  I was stupid and could not understand; I was like a brute beast in Your presence.  Yet I am always with You; You take hold of my right hand. With Your counsel you guide me, and at the end receive me with honor." 

- Psalm 73: 21- 24

Ashamed, lost, unworthy? He knows. Broken, wounded and blinded by your own pain? He knows, He understands. Confused and haunted by a sin? He knows it. How silly it is that we hide our hurts from the one who already knows them all and is the only one able to heal. Although the process may hurt, the only way to heal is to extract the thing causing the pain -- much like a thorn in a poor dog's paw -- reveal it to the light and the Physician and be freed. 

I so often fall into the mind set "Oh, shoot. I messed up. Let me do well for while and then I'll be worthy to come before Him and say I'm sorry." No! Stupidity. It is when I am most miserable, foolish, and unworthy that I need Him, the comforter of the broken-hearted.