I Was Beaten Beyond Recognition

I Was Beaten Beyond Recognition
by py thomas
© June 6, 2013

Isaiah 53:5

Many of you don’t know it, but I am a survivor of extreme domestic violence.  I was beaten beyond recognition.  Many of you have been too, but are in denial.  Here’s my story and I hope it helps those who are being beaten daily in their personal lives and need the courage to get some help.  I did, and even many of the scars that I had have vanished both on the outside and inside of my heart and emotions.

I have experienced the result of a former life of sin that left me almost unrecognizable – basically, beaten beyond recognition.  It was mirrored in my outward appearance, behavior, lifestyle (which in reality was more of a death sentence vs. lifestyle); what I said and thought.  At times it was a combination of some or all.  Each area pointed to the evidence of my being beaten and the destructive impact from a life of sin.  Sin is the original perpetrator of domestic violence.  Left unchecked, sin’s assault on a person ultimately leads to spiritual, physical and eternal death.

Even those of us who have been physically abused, it was sin driving the perpetrator to do these things to us.  They were in the darkness which comes from sin; and therefore ruled and influenced by darkness of sin.

From the beginning, the sin of rebellion against YHWH (GOD) was started by a lie.  Satan lied to a third of the angels that he (Satan) should be worshipped instead of YHWH; and next he lied to Adam and Eve and seduced and tempted them to also rebel against YHWH.    Because Adam and Eve believed the lie and acted on it, we their descendants inherited their sinful nature. 

The million dollar question is, “Do you choose to still believe the lie until it beats you beyond recognition, or make the choice to make peace with your Creator, ELOHIM, the Righteous Judge and Creator?  Remember that the seduction of lies is clever and masquerades and disguises itself in interpersonal relationships (all types), lusts, ambitions, material wealth, success, fame, and pride.  It chips away at you so subtlety that you don’t even realize how badly you have been beaten, robbed and cheated.  In some cases, it appears that its almost too late to do anything about it.  But if you’re still breathing, you have a chance for full recovery.  Take it from me, one who knows from personal experience.  Yes, I cried many times, I was tired of myself and the poor and bad choices I seemed to make over and over again.  But I found hope, deliverance, healing and the most phenomenal peace that far surpasses human understanding from YHWH through Yeshua (Jesus). 

In considering the domestic violence that is being perpetuated against you, have you stopped and considered that all of our sins were perpetuated upon Yeshua; and literally resulted in Him being beat beyond recognition on our behalf for our behalf, as prophesized in Isaiah 53:1-12?  Did you know that Yeshua was willing to be lied on, falsely accused and beaten so that we could be saved and delivered from the penalty of sin (which is eternal death)?  For this reason, we OWE HIM A LOT OF GRATITUDE AND THANKSGIVING!  We would be foolish not to accept this awesome gift of mercy, grace and forgiveness offered in the covenant of salvation -   the good news of the gospel of salvation. 

As a survivor and more than a conqueror through Yeshua, I know that we can all choose life and that everlasting, instead of continuing as a victim of domestic violence – daily being beaten by sin beyond recognition, and ultimately dying and dying eternally.  We can be restored, forgiven and molded into YHWH’s original created purpose – that we “be holy as He is holy.”  We can become recognizable by the seal and promise of the Holy Spirit we have access to through our confession of faith in Yeshua’s death and resurrection, acknowledging that apart from Him, we are sinners in need of forgiveness and redemption.

But GOD!  YHWH has given us His word to be the confession of our lips when attacked by the father of lies and author of confusion, Satan, by telling that liar what YHWH has said, “But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Revelation 21:8).

Once we surrender and enter into the covenant of salvation, we can now tell that liar Satan, with the God-given authority YHWH’s truth:

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love GOD, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

God’s Everlasting Love

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If GOD is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? ³³ Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is GOD who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is the Messiah who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of GOD, who also makes intercession for us. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Messiah? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As it is written:

“For Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

³⁷ Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, ³⁹ nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Again, the million dollar question is, “Do you choose to still believe the lie until it beats you beyond recognition, or make the choice to make peace with your Creator, ELOHIM, the Righteous Judge and Creator?