It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
Interpretation
This quote reflects the emotional struggle we face when forced to let go of something significant to us.
Corrie Ten Boom's quote illustrates the pain associated with relinquishing control or letting go of cherished things in our lives. It suggests that when circumstances compel us to release our grasp on certain elements, it can feel like a painful extraction, hinting at a deeper spiritual context regarding trust in God's plan and the difficulty in surrendering our desires or attachments.
In practice
This quote can be used in a support group to encourage members to find peace in letting go of past relationships.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.
What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.
The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.
The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown.
If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey? _x000D_ Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.
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