What's up, Buttercup?!? No, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth...I hope you guys are well. The new job is kicking my butt and I'm trying to figure out this new schedule.
Yesterday, Sunday, the kids were watching "Happy Feet 2" and I was in and out getting ready for a wedding. At the end of the movie they were all stomping and dancing and this big seal guy started going backwards and his friend sorta yelled at him, not understanding what he was doing. He replied"
"Sometimes you have to go backward to move forward."
I have felt like that, although I don't think it was always a conscience choice on my part. I think I have felt it was more forced on me, at times, by other people's choices, situations or unhealthy behavior patterns that forced those times in my life.
Through the years I have thought of Abraham, where God calls him to collect all his stuff and family and take off to this great place of promise that God has for him. Or Moses leading the Israelites through the desert. There was a direct route they could have taken that would have brought them to their promised land in a much shorter time, instead God brought them on this trek that lasted years.
In both of these lives there were set-backs, personal and corporate losses, victories, failures and in the end seeing God's hand on all of it.
I think for me right now, I am stepping back only to get ready to move forward!!
I am clinging to: "Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Phil. 1:6
I need to know that all of this is for a purpose and God is really in control...NOT sickness, people's stupid choices, situations or even my bad decisions/choices. That God is sovereign and has my back and my front and my sides, and that He is not at all ruffled by what is freaking me out!
Looking back over the things we have already walked through, I can see God's hand when at the time I wasn't too sure He was there. I am holding onto that knowledge and comfort during this time.
So, no matter where you are in your life at this moment...packing for an adventure, lost in the desert, facing a failure, rejoicing in a victory or stepping back and getting ready to move forward. Know in your heart of hearts that God is with you, He is sovereign and in control. He will finish His work in you.
The hard part is not knowing what that "finished work" looks like until we are out of the process, look back and see God's Hand directing, protecting, molding and sometimes correcting us.
Each day, each step may be made in confidence of Who God is! The trick, I'm finding, is not focusing on the difficulty of the step or that you really don't want to take the step, but focusing on Who has the plan. I like the line in the new "Karate Kid" where Jackie Chan tells him: "You're focus needs more focus."
I pray that you know the confidence and comfort that God is with you today, whatever that looks like for you! Let's have our focus get more focus.
Have a fab day!!
All my love ~
Jodi xoxo
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