Cue Knight in Shining Armour

I am deeply humbled...

Sometimes it seems like a blur to me, all numb with flashes of immense pain that translated physically. Two years especially, that I can barely remember. He took me out of my cell in hell. It was as if satan wanted me to become acquainted with my torture chamber before I found it in death, he so often tempted me with killing myself, with the voice of a siren. Deceptively luring me into the depths of my despair. How mighty is the Lord God who wades into the deprave waste of sin and dives beneath the putrid stench to save His Beloved’s spirit. I am here by His mercy and love alone. I am overwhelmed by how serious it was. How far God has removed me from that place. How much I have changed. I did not turn 180 degrees overnight... it has taken many years for God to get me to where I am today. Still imperfect but so much closer to Him and freer for it. He has worked so tenderly and patiently with me... I am in awe. It is small changes over a very long time that do not seem like much in the moment but when you look back... the change... it is truly a wonder by the miraculous Maker. He saw my worth, even when my blood had turned black to the reflection of my dark dead heart. Pumping a quick and certain death into my veins. Filled with lies from satan that I was the disease. I was the cancer, which stopped me from wanting to be saved. He took me out of it anyway. Purified me, removed the stench of sin. Redressed me in finery and a crown, called me to His table and introduced me as His beloved daughter. Yes. I am His and He is mine.

- Rachel Hayley Swanepoel

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