I've been exhausted over the last couple of months...and I don't think I just realized how exhausted until this week when I've had a chance to rest. I wish I could tell you the to-do list was completed this week, but rest won. My soul is full though and my heart is happy. If you don't know you can be exhausted in more ways than physical, well that's a blog for another day. I've had writer's block during this exhausted time...more so than I realized. This morning though God in His perfect way started writing a blog.
I was WIDE awake in the early morning hours and tried to watch a movie to sleep. God brought the woman with the issue of blood to mind. I was like okay God where is this going.....but I decided to just listen. Then He took me back to a time in service last Sunday and used it to engrain a truth on my heart. The woman with the issue of blood knew who Jesus was and that's why she pressed through that day to get to Him. Y'all don't read that and just let it go in one ear and out the other. She didn't just know about Jesus, but she knew Him otherwise, would she have taken the risk to press through the crowd that day and get to Jesus. I'm not so sure but she knew Him and she knew that if He had done it for others, He could do it for her.....she just had to get to Him. Sometimes we want so desperately for someone else to press through for us and clear the way, but sometimes God's going come on child...press into until you get that touch. Yeah, it's deep.....I've had the week off and been able to finally listen. When we experience that press....that push in prayer that leads us to that place where we hear Him call us Daughter. That's not found in any denomination or bylaws of a church....but in a relationship with the One who knows all of your mess and still loves your beautiful self!
It's sometimes not a huge thing that overwhelms us over time, but the little foxes that can spoil the vine. This woman had dealt with her mess for a time, but she knew what she had to do and she wasn't going to let anything distract her. The end result.....she not only got her healing, but He called her Daugther. (Don't miss that part....). God knows where you are at right now sweet reader.....and He's saying don't let the distractions keep you from me. It's not about what anyone else says, how they do things, or even what will keep them happy...press through daughter.
I could keep writing, but I'll end this here.....Do you, not the you that pleases everyone, but the you that pleases Him. What He's called you to and the steps He's ordered for you may not always make sense to everyone else.....but that's okay. I think sometimes we expect people to know our story based on the chapter they joined in without giving them the chapters they missed.....and that's a blog for another day.
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