Renewed to Renew

I was in a bus the other day on my way to a meeting. There was a woman seated in front of me who was yelling on the phone. She kept saying, ‘what am I going back to that house for?’ With time my speculation led me to believe she was talking to her girlfriend. Well I can choose to cook up a juicy story to make this entry exciting, but that’s not worth it. All I remember thinking was what this woman was going through. I won’t act like Inspector Derrick, to understand the intricacies, but it just hit me how much pain there is out there.

The likelihood of acquiring more baggage is high if you begin to dissect other people’s situations. We really need to pray for the other women who also need to encounter their renewal. May the Lord be with them and use us, going through the process, to share Him with them.

Renewal is a personal journey, but we also need to remember that however much God wants us all to heal and renew our minds; it is from sharing our renewal that our families and our society as a whole will be renewed.

At times I stop to ask myself, what if Laimani never sought to share her testimony after she received her initial renewal. What would happen then? I don’t want to imagine it. We are all receiving healing and restoration each day, but as we are renewed, we need to remember that we too are catalysts in the chain reaction of personal renewal.

I think what I find amazing about renewal is how beautiful we all become. As women we just blossom and are so attractive in so many ways. It is definitely an experience every woman should go through. And it’s only by sharing your own life as a testimony with other hurting women that they too will begin to seek the restoration of their souls.