Started From the Bottom, Now We Here

Nov 17
3 min read

By Allure Unique

Real Struggle Strength Motivation

God has a way of taking what the world overlooks and turning it into something extraordinary. He uses the people and stories that others count out to show what His power can do. He specializes in turning pain into purpose and weakness into wisdom. The very things that were meant to break us become the bricks that build us.

We often mistake being at the bottom for failure but in God’s plan, the bottom is where He begins the rebuilding. It’s where the foundation of faith is formed, where the leader within us starts to rise. God teaches us how to love ourselves the way He loves us: unconditionally, despite our shortcomings and mistakes.

He doesn’t throw us away when we fall. Instead, He recycles, reduces, and reuses us, molding us over and over until we reflect His image. Every season of breaking becomes a season of becoming. As He renews our minds and cleanses our hearts, He shapes us for something greater than we imagined.

My Journey

I know this truth because I’ve lived it. There was a time when I didn’t see myself through God’s eyes. I was a young woman who had seen struggle, pain, and loss too early. A single mother of three, fighting battles in the streets and within myself trying to survive, trying to understand who I was and why I was still standing. I made choices out of hurt, confusion, and searching for love in the wrong places.

But God! He stepped in right where I was. He took the same girl that the world labeled “broken,” “unqualified,” and “too far gone,” and He breathed life into her again. He used my lowest moments as the platform for His glory. Through prayer, surrender, and His grace, He transformed my pain into purpose. What was once a hoodlum’s path became a holy calling. That’s how Real Struggle Strength Motivation was born from the realization that my struggle was not the end of me, it was the beginning of who I was becoming.

Now I walk boldly in the truth that God doesn’t waste any part of our story. He uses every tear, every mistake, and every setback to prepare us for greater. I’ve learned that healing starts the moment you stop running from who you were and start embracing who God says you are.

The Message

No matter where you come from, no matter how many times you’ve fallen, I want you to know, YOU CAN RISE! God’s grace is not limited by your past; it’s activated by your willingness to let Him in. It doesn’t matter if you’re at rock bottom or rebuilding from scratch, He can start there too.

You can become better once you know better, and once you truly know who God is in your life, you’ll realize that better has always been inside you. When your perspective changes, your power changes. When your faith grows, your life shifts. And when you start walking in purpose, you’ll discover that every trial was training, every detour was development, and every delay was divine timing.

So start from where you are. Love yourself as God loves you unconditionally. Allow Him to renew your mind, clean your heart, and direct your path. You were never disqualified, just being refined.

Because in the end, it’s not about where you started. It’s about how you let God finish what He began.

You didn’t just start from the bottom, you were planted there to grow, rise, and shine for His glory. And now, by His grace…

“Started from the bottom, now we’re here.”

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