I'm stuck… P.1
Regardless of where you are in your walk with Christ, there are moments when your journey feels stuck. Once you became saved some of your worldly habits went away, but there are some lingering in your life. Somehow there's this conception that if you're a Christian and you're saved you are just happily living in a cloud and everything in life is perfect; nothing farther from the truth.
That concept makes some Christian hide their struggles; they feel ashamed that they are struggling in a sin or a habit when they proclaim to be lovers of the Lord. This type of bondage makes their spiritual growth to stop and hinders them from enjoying the freedom, peace and fullness of blessings of a life with Christ.
I found this scripture that I want us to look at it closely. It really tugged at my spirit because is what I call a hidden treasure in the bible that can start getting us in the right path to moving forward from being stuck. The scripture is Job 22:21-25, I like The Message version, it helps slow pokes like me understand the Word better, so let's start this journey:
Give in to God- Ask yourself what is it that God has been asking you to turn
over for a while and you have not. As yourself, why haven't you? Sometimes we battle God over our habits, whatever they may be. Sometime we enjoy our sins too much to give them up, and we're just not sure we want to live without that worldly pleasure.
Come to terms with him- There is nothing, absolutely nothing impossible for God. When we are faced with a struggle we think that we have tried everything in our power to get this resolved, there's no other way things are going to be any other way. Wrong! You are right, you are powerless over your sin and your situation, but you need to accept that God can change everything if you hand it over…then what are you waiting for?
And everything will turn out just fine- This is God's promise, if we turn things over to him, they may not come out the way we want them, but they will come out fine and for our good.
Let him tell you what to do.- Are you one of those people who when they pray they tell God how things should be fixed? Guilty as charged. If we knew what we were doing we would have fixed it already, therefore I think is time to sit quietly and allow God to be the one telling you what the real plan out of your misery is. Yours has not worked so far, give it a chance.
Take his words to heart- Once he tells you what to do, do it! Sometimes the
answer is not what we want to hear, so we start questioning if it comes from God. Keep yourself in communication with the Holy Spirit so that you can discern the sweet voice of the Lord and not be mistaken.
Come back to the Lord Almighty and he will rebuild your life-Once again God reassures us that the answer is in him. He will turn things around. I've lived this promise in times of duress and the times I have not been living it has been simply because my spoon is in the saucer. Once I come back to God and his word and his will he has restored my life in better ways than what I had planned for the outcome to be, even when the process didn't exactly looked like what I was hoping for.
On our next post we will continue to explore this powerful bible verse. Until then… Be blessed!
