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12/20/2025

Insights from Luke 1
- Cherpl

Zacharias: Muted - silenced / by disbelief

Zacharias wasn’t punished because he asked a question. Mary asked a question too.
He was muted because his question came from precedent, not possibility.

Zacharias said, “How shall I know this?”
Mary said, “How will this be?”

Same curiosity. Different posture.

Zacharias measured God against biology, age, history, and odds. In corporate terms, he ran a risk assessment and decided the vision was not scalable. And God said, “Then you don’t get to speak into what you refuse to trust.”

Disbelief doesn’t always cancel the promise—but it can suspend your participation in it.

God is faithful to His word, not to our mood, certainty, or emotional readiness.

Zacharias’ disbelief did not cancel the assignment.
It altered his level of access.

Here’s the principle:

God will fulfill what He promised—but He will not let our disbelief narrate it.

So God does something brilliant:
- He keeps Zacharias present in his wife’s life
- He keeps him observing her pregnancy journey
- He keeps him alive and included be He removes his influence over the environment - God silenced him.

Why? Because our words shape our reality.

In business terms:
Zacharias stayed on the org chart, but he lost decision-making authority.

Disbelief doesn’t just sit quietly.
It leaks. It reframes. It contaminates tone. It shapes. It activates.

God didn’t silence Zacharias to punish him.
God muted him to protect the promise.

This is divine risk management.

Some people have to be silenced—not removed—so they don’t influence what God is doing in us. Most importantly, some of just need to shut up and ponder when God gives us a word. 🙏

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our heart softens…
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Compassion sees the wound.
Boundaries protect you from the consequences of the wound.

Both can coexist without contradiction.

Healing is a choice, so is setting boundaries.

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When you step out of people’s story and narratives, you step back into your own fully and completely.

And here’s the paradox:
When you stop overthinking how you’re being perceived, you naturally show up more grounded, more open, more warm — which means you actually start experiencing more real connection, not less.

It’s about reorienting your gaze inward in a healthy way — nurturing, tending, noticing yourself — not in a self-absorbed way, but in a self-honoring way.

When you anchor there:
- you stop contorting to fit anyone’s assumptions
- you stop interpreting silence or neutrality as rejection
- you stop reading yourself through someone else’s imagined lens
- you finally breathe freely again

The truth is, we don’t get acceptance and belonging by shrinking. We get it by stepping out of the roles we were never meant to perform in the first place.

So be yourself … always!

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Healing is how you move from:

survival → stability
reactivity → clarity
pain-driven choices → purpose-driven choices
wounds → wisdom
trauma → testimony
history → destiny

Healing doesn’t erase the story.
Healing shifts the meaning of the story.
Healing turns “this happened to me” into “this grew something in me.”



**4. Your life doesn’t improve by accident.

It improves by alignment.**

When you heal, you reclaim:
• your voice
• your power
• your clarity
• your discernment
• your emotional range
• your self-trust
• your spiritual grounding
• your identity

When those come back online?
Your whole life levels up.

Relationships get healthier.
Choices get wiser.
Boundaries get clearer.
Peace gets deeper.
Opportunities stick instead of slipping through your fingers.

Not because “God finally decided to bless you”…
but because you finally became able to hold the blessing without breaking.

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We love the idea of “more.”
More peace.
More clarity.
More opportunities.
More money.
More love.
More purpose.
More influence.
More capacity.
More impact.

But “more” always costs something — not punishment, but preparation.

Growing and expanding simply mean:

You become the kind of person who can sustain what you’re asking for.

That’s it.

It’s not mystical.
It’s not vague.
It’s not unreachable.

It’s development.

Grow for it.

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Sometimes we are not confused.

Sometimes we are just unwilling.

Unwilling to move.
Unwilling to release.
Unwilling to grow.
Unwilling to face ourselves.
Unwilling to pick the harder choice.

And the second you say it plainly, something shifts.

We spend SO much energy crafting the story around our inaction —
“Let me pray more…”
“I just don’t have clarity…”
“I need a sign…”
“I’m waiting on God…”
“I’m not sure what to do…”

But underneath all that spiritual fluff, emotional fog, and mental gymnastics?

We’re not confused.

We’re just unwilling.

And the beautiful thing is — that’s not shameful.
It’s not sinful.
It’s not a character indictment.
It’s not a sign that we’re broken beyond repair.

It’s just truth.

And truth is always a friend, even when it stings a little.

Because the moment you can say,

“I’m not confused — I’m avoiding,”
or
“I’m not lost — I’m resisting,”
or
“I’m not stuck — I’m choosing not to move,”

…that honesty breaks the trance.
It unclogs the emotional drain.
It stops the loop of self-deception.
It gives the soul a starting point.

You can work with willingness.
You can work with unwillingness.
But you can’t work with pretending.
Because pretending gets us no where and keeps us stuck in a loop.

Honesty with self is key to happiness and alignment.

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Because here’s the thing nobody wants to admit out loud:
Sometimes we are just unwilling to change, unwilling to do something about our situations and our lives - we are not confused.

And that’s not a moral failure. It’s not a character flaw. It’s just truth.

And if it sounds harsh, the harshness is actually mercy.
It’s clean.
It’s clarifying.
It cuts through the fog of excuses.

These statements —
• “I don’t want to change.”
• “I don’t want to let go.”
• “I don’t want better if better will cost me comfort.”
• “I don’t want healing if healing will require surrender.”
• “I don’t want responsibility because responsibility requires growth.”

— they’re not confessions of weakness.
They’re confessions of accuracy.

Because the only thing worse than being stuck…
is pretending you’re not stuck.

And the only thing heavier than staying the same…
is lying about why you’re staying the same.

Honesty doesn’t magically fix anything, but it unsticks the soul.
Denial can’t do that.
Pretending can’t do that.
Performance of any kind won’t do that.
Affirmations layered over self-deception won’t do that.

But honesty?
Whew. Honesty cracks the shell. Because there’s no shame in being honest with yourself.

So today be honest with yourself- that is the most loving thing you can do and then see where that leads you …

Because when you tell the truth about where you actually are, you stop fighting reality and start seeing it.

And seeing it is the first seed of transformation — even when you’re not ready to transform yet.

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