Give up, give in...or look up and press in.The crisis of belief...are you there? Navigating through the difficult...the awkward...the slippery.
Even when you know God is good and his promises are always yes and he will turn all things for your good...the choice to just throw your hands up and walk away is your flesh's request because this doesn't feel good, God!
But maybe, just maybe in this unsettled state, you're in is the exact spot that your Maker wants you to be...poured out and empty...a dry and dusty vessel desperately needing to be filled. When you are emptied out more of his purposes and HIS delights can be fulFILLED in you. More of this grace and forgiveness, his peace and joy...because there is nothing to interfere in this perfectly spacious state.
But there is a choice to be made...it's the way this whole thing was designed...and maybe that's why this slippery life can get away from you sometimes. When you don't know what else to do and you aren't feeling particularly intuitive about this fork in the road. When you wonder if God really sees you or hears you...your patience is worn thin...and you're so done!
But you also know that giving up could mean letting go of receiving His fullness...His blessings and abundance...His favour....the purpose He has destined for you. And to give up on these things seems far worse than any momentary discomfort or uncertainty.
Press in during this time...speak up...ask questions....be vulnerable even, so you can receive all you need. Reach out...to others...who know this place and have been filled in their driest time. Ask them to fill you with the one thing that has worked for many dry and dusty generations... prayer. Filled by an interceding of your fellow comrades... pleading for the clouds to open and the Mighty One to come in power and fill this vessel with an outpouring that would stir and wake and bring to life that which feels sucked lifeless...an outpouring that will change everything. It's a precarious time...it's war...and if your comrades aren't carrying the wounded soldier to the infirmary, then who will? Then the soldier may die, suffocated by the giving up and giving in of his flesh.
This dry vessel needs to look up and open wide...heavenward. Just stay open and you will be filled as the cloud of blessing and favour, joy and peace and clarity... liquid life... spill out upon you and every crack is filled.
The cloud is coming...just look up...know that if you are down to nothing, God is up to something!
Matthew 26:41 - Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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