08/21/2026
The limp is always going to be visible.
There are some encounters with God that change you so deeply that you cannot walk away from them the way you came.
Jacob wrestled with God, and when the encounter was over, he walked away with a limp.
The limp was visible.
And I believe there are seasons when God allows the evidence of what He has done in you to remain visible.
Because the limp is evidence.
It is evidence that you have been through the refining fire.
It is evidence that you have survived the pruning.
It is evidence that God put His hand on your life and refused to leave you the way He found you.
You came face to face with God, but you also came face to face with some harsh realities about yourself.
God laid you on His operating table.
And He began cutting.
He cut away attitudes that were poisoning you.
He cut away relationships that were distracting you.
He cut away pride that was contaminating your motives.
He cut away the need for validation.
He cut away the things you had learned to tolerate that He never intended you to carry.
And sometimes the hardest part of the process wasn't what God was doing around you, it was what He was revealing within you.
He began dealing with what was truly in your heart.
He began cutting away everything that didn't look like Him.
And you don't walk away from a season like that without evidence.
There will be a limp.
There will be places where you don't move like you used to.
There will be things you no longer desire.
There will be places you can no longer return to.
There will be conversations you can no longer participate in.
There will be versions of yourself that you can no longer become.
And somebody may look at your limp and think you're weak.
But you know what that limp means.
You've been with God.
The limp is not a sign that God failed you.
The limp is a reminder that He touched you.
The scar is not proof that you were abandoned.
It is proof that the Surgeon was working.
You may not have come out of that season looking untouched, but you came out transformed.
You lost some things.
You lost some people.
You lost some comfort.
You lost some illusions about yourself.
But you gained a deeper knowledge of God and a
truer understanding of who you are in Him.
So don't be ashamed of the limp.
Don't hide the evidence.
Don't apologize for the way the process changed you.
There are people who will only see your limp, but God sees the encounter that produced it.
And one day, the very thing you thought you needed to hide will become your testimony.
"I walk differently now because I encountered God."
The limp is always going to be visible.
But so is the evidence that He changed you.
-Jessica Jecker | Simply Jecker
