Well, I have decided to create a second blog. my first blog, http://www.dalowes.blogspot.com/ is going to become my outlet for keeping people updated on our family and our life. yes, for those of you laughing, I'm going to do better at keeping it updated. Really, there are moments in my life when i need to write down what the Lord is working on in my life....and I need to have separate spaces for the funny stuff my kids do, and the things of the Spirit.
I read a lot of stuff from Sam Soleyn. www.soleyn.com - for those who want to check it out. I recently was reading about the things regarding our transformation from being dominated by our soul to being led by the Spirit. In one of the things i read, it was talking about how we often are called to leave something, but we assume that because the Lord asked us to leave, he automatically had a place for us to ARRIVE. And, in my flesh, i have often believed that if he called me out of one thing, there would be a place for me to be in another. How interesting that God does not think the way we do (do I hear an AMEN in the crowd?!) - and that sometimes, when we are called to leave an area, that He intends to use the time between leaving and arriving to accomplish His purposes. Hummmm.
The visual I got when I read this, initially, was physical. As in, when i leave my house, I've left. But just because I back out of the driveway doesn't mean that I'm immediately at the grocery store. I think the Lord is like this too. We often step out of one thing, usually a comfort thing, and we expect God to automatically have another comfort thing waiting for us. Our flesh is continually a comfort-seeking missile....looking for the closest thing that will keep us "safe". I don't think God is in the business of keeping us "safe" in the regard we initially view the word. I think God is continuously burning the FAKE out of us. The stuff which is not of Him. Gee....that doesn't exactly sound comfortable. And I think the reason why this has hit so hard today is because this is where I have been lately.
Trying to stay comfortable.
Oh Lord, forgive me when I only want you on my terms. Forgive me when I want things to be easy and tend to look the other way instead of dealing with issues that are hard. May my heart continue to press on, may my Spirit continue to discern things that my soul cannot understand...yet bring them forth from my Spirit into my soul, and allow them to become Truth in my life.
