I'm a survivor of trafficking, and for years I felt like I belonged to someone else, like I'd been marked by shame and violation. Learning that I've been sealed by the Spirit, marked by God as God's own possession, has been part of my healing.
That sealing isn't something I earned or deserved. It's something God did, claiming me as belonging to God rather than to my abuser, to my shame, to my past. That claim is stronger than the marks left by violation. I'm marked by something better.
I work now with other survivors, trying to help them encounter this same truth—that they belong to God, that they've been claimed, that the marks left by abuse aren't their ultimate identity. That spiritual reality has changed everything about how I see myself and how I try to help others see themselves.
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