"I'll never be able to trust people because my family broke apart."
How it sounds in your head: If my parents couldn't keep their promise, why would anyone else? I build walls because everyone eventually leaves. It's safer to not let anyone close.
"For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.'"
-- Hebrews 13:5Trauma - turns one betrayal into an expectation of all future relationships.
She watched the most important relationship in her world dissolve. The people who were supposed to stay forever didn't, creating evidence that promises don't hold.
Cast out, abandoned in the desert with her dying son, no hope. God HEARD her cry, opened her eyes to a well that was already there, and made her son into a great nation - instant provision when all human help was gone.
I REFUSE the lie that I can't trust because I've been hurt. IT IS WRITTEN that God will NEVER leave me nor forsake me. His promise stands when human promises fail. I am not defined by who left - I am defined by WHO STAYED. IT IS WRITTEN in Deuteronomy 31:6 that He will not leave me nor forsake me. The Father is RUNNING toward me, not walking away. The BARAK blessing means I am PURSUED by goodness and mercy all my days. I declare: my heart is SAFE in His hands. I can trust again.
The Father sees a daughter with walls up, and instead of waiting for her to lower them, He's climbing over them with arms full of gifts. He's whispering 'I'm not like them - watch Me prove it' while He throws a party for her just for being HIS.