I, like many
of you have not transformed completely into Gods full destiny for my life. I am
still employed in a full time job while I await the full manifestation of what
He has in store for me. Sitting at my desk frustrated I began writing a text to
my cousin asking what it would take for her to be exactly where God wants her
to be. Before I could even finish my text The Holy Spirit reminded me the
journey was just as important as arriving. As a matter of fact you cannot
arrive without a journey.
The
idiosyncrasies, trials, tribulations and oh yes the things that we hate the
most, or cause us the most pain are exactly what are being used to make us
exactly who God wants us to be. We have all heard you have to crawl before you
walk. Well along with crawling and taking those first steps come a few skinned
knees. But remembering the pain from the skinned knees helps us avoid some of
the steps that we may have skipped or encourage us to slow our stride to
prevent additional boo boos as we used to refer to them.
One of the
many lessons I have learned along the way is that recounting my challenges to
others not only makes me stronger but may prevent someone else from making the
same mistakes I’ve made.
Oh how
wonderful it would be to go from A to Z, but it’s all of the alphabets in
between that even allow us to get to Z.
Paul tells us to count it all joy when we fall into diverse temptations.
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience
have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire wanting nothing.
Many are the
afflictions of the righteous but God delivers us from them all and guess what?
The journey isn’t all that bad! He walks right along with us and many times in
front of us to ensure we get there. So the next time you start feeling
frustrated or maybe even like your feet are in quick sand reach for the hand of
God that is reaching towards you and allow Him to pull you through.
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