Ps 56:8- Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? 9.When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. 10. In God will I praise His Word: in the Lord will I praise His Word.
Of all the things I hate—the abuse of any kind to anyone, especially the sexual abuse of the defenseless, makes my righteous indignation boil at a feverish pitch. It leaves them deeply scarred, distrusting, and damaged. If you have suffered any type of abuse, God says that He has bottled your tears, and has not forgotten your pain. “Where was God when it happened?” One might say. In a world engrossed and saturated with sin, bad things happen to good people. It does not mean that God did not know. Rather, abuse of any kind shows the need of the victim and perpetrator. Both need a loving savior to give them the right to enter the healing process. You will never erase nor forget what took place, but God’s power to heal is available to you through His Word. Rather than see the torment of the abuse, you will be taught to see it as a failed attempt of satan to snuff you out. YOU ARE STILL STANDING!
You may even want to see your offender suffer. But remember, vengeance belongs to God (Rom. 12:19), and He has commanded His children to forgive (Mark 11:25-26). “Yeah, but forgiveness seems useless!” You might say. To the contrary, forgiveness shows our willingness to believe God to heal us because of our obedience to Him. Forgiveness is not for the perpetrator, but for the victim. It reveals the resolve to love, rather than to be brought to the level that caused the beastly act of the violator in the first place! This is what our Lord did when He forgave those who murdered Him without just cause (Luke 23:34). He, too, was purposely violated, but He held no ill-will against His haters. Are we better than Jesus? Of course not! His example of unconditional love should spark us to believe God for the spiritual revival of our hearts, the restoring of our souls, the renewal of our minds, and the eventual resurrection our bodies for using His word as our instruction manual during our redeemed life. O, by the way, YOUR STILL STANDING. Praise God for His Word. God is for me!