The Line in The Sand

I was standing on the wall. (The wall is where you stood in elementary school during recess when you did something wrong.) I had my head down in shame with my hands behind my back, as if I was awaiting some great punishment. I felt discouraged, scared, alone, trapped, and so afraid. But I wasn't alone. When I looked to the left and to the right I realized that there were countless other women of different cultures and nationalities standing with me, all of us feeling the same way.

Suddenly, I felt something in my hands. I brought my hands around the front of me and they were filled with sand. As I looked up, I noticed that the whole blacktop turned to a desert. Then I saw someone who I knew was Jesus walk in front of me. He looked right at me with loving eyes and drew a line in the sand in front of me. On His side of the line He wrote in the sand, "YES!" He looked up at me and motioned for me to come over to His side of the line. Then I woke up.

I can't fully explain in words or in writing what this means to me. For a long, LONG time I was convinced that I would never breathrough the grief and the shame of sins and circumstances of my life. Now, I'm coming into agreement daily with Jesus that that is a lie! Everyday, He offers me, US, to come on over to His side of the line. He wants us to say "Yes!" to the things of God. He wants us to choose freedom instead of bondage and truth over lie.

For the last couple years God has brought me to more healing and joy then I ever could have imagined possible. I went from a place of depression and rejection, to a place of freedom and excitement for the future. I have come to believe that I am, as with all women, clothed with strength and dignity. I will choose to walk that out as best as I can while on this earth.

I am truly grateful that He is now inviting me on this journey of the World Race where I will have opportunity to see other women be broken free of bondage and step over the line to be with Jesus. They will no longer feel they are stuck on the wall of shame. They will believe in their inheritance as daughters of the most high God, who desires for them to prosper and have life to the absolute fullest. They will know they are valuable, beautiful, dearly loved, and cherished. They will know that their lives have incredible purpose and that they have a best friend in Jesus, who will never harm or reject them or their children.