Loss Is Gain: A Releasing To God Will Yield Glorious Promotion! by Dr. Sandra Scott Wright

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“But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.” Joshua 24:15

Loss is Gain. The stripping away, the abandonment, loss of job forced retirement, loss of a friend, husband, wife or child. Foreclosures, shall the list continue…Loss of ones health, vitality and youth. Suddenly you wake up one day, to find you are no longer young, you are fat, skinny, the hair is gray, the children have lives of their own…you no longer have to get up for work…where has it all gone…

Loss is hard, whether voluntary stripping, release or a ripping tearing away, loss is hard: Hard on the emotions, hard spiritually even for the spiritually strong, simply hard.  Child fighting with spouse, who will win, which one will you choose over?  Leave or stay, spouse doesn’t treat you with care anymore, leave or stay.  He is kind to you, provides, but doesn’t want to marry you…leave or stay.  You have been faithful in giving your offerings, and a good steward in all God has given you, and now your house is in foreclosure…leave or stay? Trying to be a good steward of the body God has given you, trapped by genetic predispositions of high blood pressure, diabetes, heart trouble, obesity, live or die, leave or stay…Wake up one morning finding the house feeling empty, spouse there but not there, leave or stay…

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My Cell Door Unlocked   by Sandra Scott Wright

The service had concluded, the pastor had preached on forgiveness. The pastor was my brother who didn’t know anything about my abandonment by my husband; I had not told him; I had told no one yet…

“I made the choice I would not stay in this cell of hate, bitterness or remain a victim of my husband’s attack. Satan had a plan he had begun to win towards my husband, but he would not win the battle on me.” I would not stay locked down like so many women who still hate any man that has ever hurt them. I would release the keys to his jail of me not forgiving him and in so doing release myself to go on…

I went to his place of employment and on my way I said in my heart, “God you have exactly one hour before his store closes to turn my heart back into flesh and not stone. I am going there and I’m going to sit there until I see him as my brother first who has fallen, and secondly as my husband who abandoned me.” I was determined to do my part and trust God for the rest. I had made up my mind I would sit there until I felt the change or they would simply have to arrest me and take me to jail for not leaving.  I’d rather be in a cell made by man than a cell of me not forgiving him and bitterness locked in my heart…on my way to eternal damnation.

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The Attack of My Heart by Dr. Sandra Scott Wright

As the days passed bill collectors began to call. Our rent was behind, all the bills were behind. My husband called and said he wanted a divorce. I was unemployed….The pain began to settle in, the loneliness and most intense was the hate…yes hate that a Man of God, a preacher,  could do me so wrong. Hate that my obedience to God in marrying this man lead me to this…perhaps even hate towards a God that would allow this to happen to me….

Then…I remembered I was under attack. The Portal of my heart was open for every evil spirit to come in. The pain had opened the portal of my heart. Bitterness, hate, resentment, and every emotion you could possibly feel began to flood in…

I began to search the scripture to find some semblance of sanity in all I was going through. This was not supposed to happen to me. I had not gone out looking for a man, but had waited and trusted God to send one to me. Me, who was a minister encouraging women nationally and internationally, this could not happen to me! Where was God, where was justice, where was healing…they had all seemed to flee, I was hurting, feeling an excruciating pain.

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