The other side of the mountain....

The Bowlings have a song(which is #1 this month by the way) called "I Know Enough". This song has ministered to me in more ways than one since I first heard it. However this week, God has taken it to a new level.

"I’ve been on the other side of the mountain
 Seen the night give way to day
 Delivered over and over
When it seemed there was no way
Been rescued by mercy, lifted by love
I may not know much
But I know enough"

From the start of this week till now, I've watched God move this mountain climber. I had asked Him to move the mountain, actually it was probably more like beginning. I was tired, burned out, and wanted Him to do what I didn't believe I had the strength to do. I needed God to breathe life into me again or at least re-inflate what I had let out. How many know that so many times we ask God to move the mountains in our lives, when most of the times He wants to show us we are strong enough to climb that mountain with His help? The mountain will defeat us if we never realize we are strong enough to climb it. We have to trust Him enough to let His will happen. If we keep doubting ourselves, please others more than Him, and let our feelings dictate our actions, we will stay on one side of the mountain. Once you put it all(and He means ALL) in His hands, get ready. He moves as only He can and does what He has been wanting to do all along. He can break the chains of people pleasing and show you how much confidence you can have when you seek to only please Him. He can take a meeting headed in one direction and when He intervenes, a 180 happens(in a good way). He can take a feeling and replace it with peace. Peace that you would put into words if you could, but the they just can't be found. His peace doesn't always mean you know how it is going to work out, but you know Who is going to work it all out. Stay strong and walk with confidence forward on the journey with Him. Peace comes with confidence not because you think you can do anything, but because you know He can do EVERYTHING!.

I may not know much, but I know enough. I know what it's like to worry about things and to let those things snowball into bigger things. I also know what it's like to trust Him and walk in that trust. The latter may not be the easiest, but once you experience that peace that passes all understanding.....it makes anything else seem just wrong.

On the journey,
~Melissa