She stood looking up at the mountain not sure she could climb it again. Her muscles felt tight, her knees were knocking, and her mind started to convince her she couldn't climb it....that it would be easier just to go around instead of over. Oh but then she got still for a minute.....and something rose up on the inside of her. There was a strength and a determination rising up that was stronger than what her natural was feeling. A strength that reminded of her mountains she had already climbed, mountains she had already seen moved....and the mountains that stood in front of her didn't seem so high. She stood looking at again knowing what she had to do....but whispering to herself...just a push to get going please. Then she felt it.....and with tears and a new resolve she got back to climbing. Yes she knew she couldn't do it within herself, but the God that had climbed every mountain before with her was still with her....and despite how she felt about herself on some days...He said she was strong enough to climb and she chose to believe that despite how she felt. He told her she could....and she went with that knowing that He knew what was at the top and on the other side. He whispered in her ear as she started to climb..."I don't change.."
I'm a visual person...I'm the let me follow Google Maps vs. written directions, I'm the let me watch a video or look at a handout for something techie vs. having you tell me how to fix it. I remember it with a picture....the picture above has been something God has been speaking into my Spirit for a couple of weeks. You know how sometimes your cell service isn't as strong in spots. There may be some weather interference (wind etc.), there could be a tower blocking it....or it may just not be very strong where you are at. Those distractions (for lack of a better word) keep us from being able to hear the message that is coming through. You know those times when you keep asking the person what was that again or those lovely "dropped" calls. Things in the natural can reflect things in the spiritual....there are times when things interfere with our reception. We let the busyness of life become an interference , tiredness may distract, but even when it seems like a call has been dropped, God keeps calling. I'm thankful that He doesn't change despite our feelings, our thoughts, our anything. He loved us first and when He lights a fire on the inside of You....there is NOTHING that can extinguish it. You can try to cover it up, but the flame will keep burning...and eventually the heat will become uncomfortable. (Think about it for a minute....) God's flame, His power on the inside of You, His anointing...man can't touch what God has birthed in you....Sometimes our biggest interference is our own stinking thinking, it's us.
There are days when I am my own worst enemy. God knows that and trust me He and I have some deep discussions about it often. He's working on it and the insecurity chain that has been rattling for a year is about to break. God knows, I know it...and the enemy knows it. There is a stirring though in my Spirit of what is still to come. The last year with God has been exceedingly above what I could imagine and more is still to come. Back to the mountain visual.....she stood looking at the mountain not sure if she wanted to climb again, but then came the sweetest whisper to her Spirit....it's a different mountain Daughter...you haven't gone backwards, I've laid out the steps ahead...just walk in what I have called you to.
There are moments in Him that can't be explained by natural words. There are moments when everything in your natural is crying out and He reaches down...and shifts what you can't see to what only He can see. There are moments when you just know as a Child of His, when you are in the lap of the One who can fan the flame He lit....
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