Once Broken Bones Dance

Over the past two days, the Lord has revealed some specific bible verses to me that have really ministered to my spirit.

The first two are from Psalm 51.

The psalmist is talking about God forgiving us for sinning against him. Asking him to scrub away our dirtiness. How since we were born we've been out of step with Creator God. I love how the Message version says this:

What you're after is truth from the inside out

That really hit me. Truth from the inside out. I don't know if it struck me because listening to truth has been a struggle over the past 6 months or what. It just reminded me that it all goes back to my heart. Having an undivided heart. On more than one occasion has my heart been as divided as it has been these past few months.

It reminds me of that Hillsong song From the Inside Out. The chorus says:

"Lord, consume me from the inside out"

I just get a mental image of the spirit of God oozing from my pores and engulfing my whole being.

Later in that chapter, probably one of my favorite Message rewrites says:

Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,

SET THESE ONCE-BROKEN BONES TO DANCING

AH. I love that so much. It ties in with a post I wrote a while back about wanting to learn to dance again. To dance this life with grace and beauty. But thats just it. My bones have been broken. Which makes perfect sense with the whole idea of our God breaking us. But note the tense the psalmist wrote in. "these ONCE broken...." As in past tense.

I'd say I'm still in a cast.

But what a beautiful image of what's to come.

Then today in Psalm 53, the psalmist wrote about justice. And people who exploit the name of our God. I like to read the NIV version after I do my devotional with the Message, just because the word is usually different and provides a beautiful new perspective.

So leading up to this verse, David is talking about evil doers who don't call on the name of God.

So while verse 5 is referring to them, it still hit me:

There they were, overwhelmed with dread, where there was NOTHING to dread

I don't want to be like those people. Because truth is, I do this a lot. I dread. I freak out about how I assume things will be. Could be. Even as I am healing to leaning on truth, I have daily opportunities to freak out about things. But truth is, there is usually nothing to dread. I don't want to live in constant expectancy of what heart breaking things could happen.

Change is just a constant of life. But you know what the difference is now world? I am changing right alongside the rest of it. For months, I dug my feet in the ground. No more.

Just some thoughts for the day.