My footsteps are ordered by the Lord. Not everyone will understand my path, but I must walk it anyway.
When the Lord calls you to walk a rocky, winding, uphill path there is no good reason to delay. A friend recently taught me that delayed obedience is just another form of disobedience and it will come with a price I don’t really want to pay.
Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58
I’ve often stood on this verse because I feel like the enemy stole so much from me, and I don’t want another day wasted. The Lord is helping me understand that labor doesn’t always look like putting one foot in front of the other to accomplish tasks, chores, and a paycheck, or even ministry. Healing is hard work. There are seasons when we are going to have to rest and allow Him to tear down the walls we have labored so hard to build. Those walls were not built in vain, they served a purpose and kept us alive. But we must learn to behold and see when it’s time to tear them down.
Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:19
We must understand that trusting enough to do this sacred work with Him can be the hardest labor we’ve ever done. It can be messy, raw, painful, and wonderful all at the same time. But if God is calling us to it, it will never be in vain. Perhaps we lay down the pen for the hammer. We stop trying to script how we think it should work. We take a step back and allow God in His mercy and grace to chip away at the old so that new life can be birthed in us.
Perhaps our job in this season is to finally rest in Him, to cry the tears, to feel the anger, to bargain until we can surrender, to experience the depression, and then to walk in freedom in the new spacious place He will bring us into.
It’s the journey that equips us to help others find freedom. We pick up the shattered pieces and place them as stones on a new path so that others can follow us into an encounter with Yeshua. That, my friends, is the real work.
This ➡️ “ Perhaps our job in this season is to finally rest in Him, to cry the tears, to feel the anger, to bargain until we can surrender…” and then rest in your beautiful heart andHis Love some more.
This is really beautiful and profound! And you have a beautiful name as well. (You may want to look up St. Helen, mother of St. Constantine the Great!)