To feel radically understood-- what an incredible idea, and yet with God all things are credible! To be understood is to be loved. It is not possible to understand someone and not love them. Knowledge and understanding are two vastly different enterprises. But God has both, for He knows all, sees all, created all, and therefore understands all. He understands the entirety of our story, He understands our temptations and struggles and why we have them so much better than we do ourselves! Opening to Him in prayer and allowing Him to explain these things to us, to show us one blemish at a time so that we can then choose to ask Him to wipe it away, is the only way to be purified. And how ardently He desires for us to let Him make us His spotless bride.
God understands us as we wish we understood ourselves--perfectly. It is a radical understanding, not merely a sympathetic one! How freeing this realization is to His creatures as we fumble for words in prayer, and fumble for action in our lives. We do not need to know what is broken in us, but only to acknowledge that something is broken and invite Him in to heal us and make us beautiful again.
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