I can't handle this

Sometimes God's truth is so painful to our flesh, we are tempted to refuse it.

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, “This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?” (John 6:60)

The Word puts to death many things we hold dear. 
It can be relationships.
It can be our world view.

But rest assured, that when the Lord delivered us of error...the end result is peace, joy, and deeper fellowship with Him.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; you will grieve, but your grief will be turned into joy. 21“Whenever a woman is in labor she has pain, because her hour has come; but when she gives birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy that a child has been born into the world. 22“Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
(John 16:20-22)

Learning the truth about UBM is similar.
There are a lot of strong emotions and confusion.
We recognize that our spiritual house was not built on the rock...but built upon a foundation of hay. It is hard and troubling to accept that.

You may find it hard to trust.
It can be difficult understanding what are majors and what are minors in the faith.
You may be immediately drawn to another system of belief, spiritual, diet, lifestyle, that has very clear cut rules. Do this, don't do this. Eat this, not that.

Drawn near to God, and He will drawn near to you. Be patient with yourself and the healing process. The Lord deals with us with gentle purposefulness. Like a good surgeon, he often operates on one part at a time...not doing it all in one cut, or we wouldn't be able to handle it.

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

 Bread corn is bruised; 

because he will not ever be threshing it, 

nor break it with the wheel of his cart,

 nor bruise it with his horsemen.

 This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

(Isaiah 28:23- 29)


That's you, dear ones. 

Just as a seed is threshed, God's purpose is not to destroy...but to release the seed so that it is fruitful.

We know that God works all things together for good for the ones who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose (Romans 8:28)


YOU are precious to Him!