GOD is the Deliverer of His Beloveds and He Pulls Them From the Sheepfold

There once was a man who was a master carpenter. That man fell 22 feet from a bridge and landed on cement and lived. He broke his back and had several other serious injuries which took months and months to recover from. To this day, he lives in constant physical pain. He could not return to carpentry, so he went to college and got a double bachelor's degree in agriculture. He went from being a carpenter to a sower. His first name means "GOD is deliverance," his middle name mean, "beloved," and his last name means, "as one pulled from the sheepfold." Now, it doesn't get more obvious than that that there is a special role GOD wants him to play to build and plant in the Kingdom.

He was married twice, and both wives beat him down with their words. Words mean everything to him. They cut him deeply. Those words from those women destroyed him. He loved them dearly, because he has a heart designed to love and love very deeply. Those women nearly killed that love in his heart. GOD will restore it completely and it will love even better than before. Right now, that all-encompassing love is lying dormant, buried in a cement bunker in his heart, because that kind of love had the power to destroy him from the inside out, and he's afraid of it, now. One day, GOD will give him courage and new life in his heart. Then, GOD will rebuild him from the inside out and he will accomplish much for the Kingdom of GOD and for other men who have been destroyed by women.

We cannot help other people heal unless we've had their afflictions. Our words have weight to them, because we lived in their shoes. Compassion is something given to us from GOD, but empathy is something we earn. Both are gifts from GOD, but the latter has to be lived, no matter how painful and for how long. If we don't, then our words will seem hollow to whom we are sent. So, whatever fiery furnace you are living in at present, know that it was GOD who put you in there because my friend, that fire in that furnace if the refiner's fire.