I am sharing this encouraging testimony with the permission of Brenda Higgins.
Fifteen years ago today, I married the man I fully expected to spend the rest of my life with, but a few years ago, disaster happened - divorce. I thought my life was over.
I know some who have gone through this devastation, despair and destruction of an unwanted divorce, who have clung to their anger, hurt, offense and brokenness. They have succumbed to bitterness and despair allowing it to cripple, incapacitate and maim them, rendering them ineffective or, at most, minimally effective for the Lord.
I know others who have suffered through that same loss but are sweeter, purer, more focused, joyful, hopeful and effective for it. They have allowed their loss to drive them into deeper relationship with God, a reliance on His goodness, faithfulness and immeasurable promises to make their lives good again - even better than they could ever have been had their marriage survived.
I plan to be one of the latter. I plan to surrender more fully, rely more heavily, delve more deeply into God.
Fellow "losers", life is not over. God is not finished with us yet. He has mighty, powerful, amazing things in store for us, if we but surrender our losses, our lives and ourselves to Him and watch what He can do, watch what He will do with our shattered dreams and hopes.
He has something wonderful planned. Let Him take you there.
-Brenda Higgins is a member of Faith Tabernacle. She sings in the choir and is the mother to five beautiful children.
