This time, I will dance
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Have you ever asked God for something, and He gave it to you, only to walk through it timidly? You found you have the one thing you asked for - yet you let life, people and circumstances dictate you - to your own misery. You let people intimidate you, or you worry about everything until you are a beat up pulp with no life left. Then the very thing you wanted is gone or removed partly due to the heartache you let it incur.
But what if He brings it back to your life. What will you do? Stare at it remember those horrible things that happened before… or will you trust the scripture and do what Paul so honorably states in Philippians 3:13b? Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Forget the past. Let go of the trouble. I know it’s hard, but Christ is there waiting for you to bring your burdens to him - for his Yoke is light(Matt 11:30).
So the question remains.
What will you do this second time around?
This new season God is bringing you.
There is a season for everything (Ecc. 3:1)
Ecc. 3:4b ‘A time to grieve and a time to dance”
Last time, I grieved. I lost. I went gray (headed.)
This time, I will dance (and bring along my root cover-up).
What is God saying to you dear one?
Dance.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The End is the Beginning
The end is the beginning.
Isaiah 43:16-19 (NASB)
16Thus says the LORD,
Who Makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,
17Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,
The army and the mighty man
They will lie down together and not rise again;
They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):
18"Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
19"Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
Behold, I do new thing…(V.19 NIV)
How do we live when something ends?
When the one thing we think we are living for ends?
The whole purpose for our current existence is over/gone?
Evaporated.
Ended.
These are questions I struggle with, but sense the solution.
For us to achieve something good, something greater, the current thing must end.
Endings are sad. They sting, they leave us with a lot of “what ifs…”
But for that new work to begin, we must end with the old work.
That’s the part that keeps us from moving on. We hold onto to the other thing like an old wet blanket, or worn out shoe.
We love the shoe. We wore the shoe with pride. We are comfortable with the shoe. We know the shoe; but now, the shoe has a hole in it. The sole is flopping around and hanging off the bottom of the shoe.
There is a better shoe, more up to date, more comfortable, and may even longer lasting shoe waiting for us. We just have to let go of the old shoe and go get the new shoe. It may take a few weeks to wear-in the shoe, but it’s perfect now.
Life hands us crazy roads to walk.
God gives us shoes… if we let Him.. He has new perfect pair just waiting, but we have to let go of the old and trust him.
He has our best interest at heart. He has a new work for us. But we have to go with him. We have to let the old shoe go. You never know what kind of new shoe he’s bringing. You may be trading in your payless for Jimmy Choo…
Let go and let God.
Isaiah 43:16-19 (NASB)
16Thus says the LORD,
Who Makes a way through the sea
And a path through the mighty waters,
17Who brings forth the chariot and the horse,
The army and the mighty man
They will lie down together and not rise again;
They have been quenched and extinguished like a wick):
18"Do not call to mind the former things,
Or ponder things of the past.
19"Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
Behold, I do new thing…(V.19 NIV)
How do we live when something ends?
When the one thing we think we are living for ends?
The whole purpose for our current existence is over/gone?
Evaporated.
Ended.
These are questions I struggle with, but sense the solution.
For us to achieve something good, something greater, the current thing must end.
Endings are sad. They sting, they leave us with a lot of “what ifs…”
But for that new work to begin, we must end with the old work.
That’s the part that keeps us from moving on. We hold onto to the other thing like an old wet blanket, or worn out shoe.
We love the shoe. We wore the shoe with pride. We are comfortable with the shoe. We know the shoe; but now, the shoe has a hole in it. The sole is flopping around and hanging off the bottom of the shoe.
There is a better shoe, more up to date, more comfortable, and may even longer lasting shoe waiting for us. We just have to let go of the old shoe and go get the new shoe. It may take a few weeks to wear-in the shoe, but it’s perfect now.
Life hands us crazy roads to walk.
God gives us shoes… if we let Him.. He has new perfect pair just waiting, but we have to let go of the old and trust him.
He has our best interest at heart. He has a new work for us. But we have to go with him. We have to let the old shoe go. You never know what kind of new shoe he’s bringing. You may be trading in your payless for Jimmy Choo…
Let go and let God.
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