“Still, I know that God lives—the One who gives me back my life…”
Job 19:25 MSG
It is God who gave me my life back! Low places have the potential to give life back. It may feel more like loss and even death than life, but over time, one may slowly begin to feel alive again. Has everything been stripped away? I mean everything? At first, it may seem like YES!!! everything has been stripped away. But is there anything left? Anything? This question causes me to lift my eyes and look around. It causes me to ask myself, “What is left?”.
Not everyone survives low places. Why this is, I do not know. For each one, it is different. And I’ve lived long enough to know this is the way it is, the way it will be.
What I do know is that practicing my faith daily gives me greater chances of surviving low places. Maybe this is what brought me out of my low place? Job knew God lived. I knew this, too.
God gave Job his life back. God gave me my life back. It wasn’t the same life I had, but it was mine nonetheless. Mine to live as fully as possible and uniquely my own. I chose to live again!
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