My Redemption Story

Since 2015, my story has been one of emotional abuse, cheating, physical intimidation, lies, manipulation, criticism, divorce- it’s been a long list. But that is not my story. My story is not what I went through. My story is not who I was. My story is who I am now and who I will be. 

The things that are done to us are gone; they are in the past. The things that we do to others are gone; we can’t change them. We learn, we forgive, we heal, and we move on. We learn so that we do better. We forgive so that we have a future that is not locked into the past. We heal so that our story is no longer one of hurt, betrayal, shame, guilt, or doubt.

Whatever I was told by my ex-husband or anyone else, is not who I am. I am exactly who God has told me I am. I am His and He loves me dearly. He wants me to live in joy and peace, not fear or slavery to anyone or anything. He has freed me from what my past told me I was, so that I can be who He created me to be.  

He is my story. He changed my story from one of disappointment to one of hope. Whatever has happened or will happen doesn’t change the fact that God has redeemed me from it all. It’s already done; it has always been done. My story is not failure or worry or hurt, my story is redemption.

Your story is not your past. Your story is your now. Your story is your future. It is what you make it to be, not what your past told you it would be. Your story gets to change, you get to change. You don’t have to be what you’ve always been or go where you’ve always gone.

I will never again see myself as less than what I am worth. I don’t ever have to make myself smaller to fit in someone’s life. I deserve to have room to be me, and I get to be as big as God made me to be!

Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. -Isaiah 43:1