Why am I here?I always ask that question when I land somewhere I think I don’t want to be.
Or in places where it makes no sense to be.
I know several things are happening.
I am being changed.
I am being cleansed of things I don’t need.
I am being reissued my positioning.
In fact, I continually pray for God to change me, especially in circumstances that I have no control over.
Either He will change it,
or he will see to it I am adaptable to His will.
There are times the waiting to be rescued or delivered has had me choking and flailing.
There are days I think I must be dead or wouldn’t mind if I were, just to avoid that inevitable thing.
Of course, there is immobilizing fear when one believes they are truly drowning.
You are trying to succumb to it, but you are
fighting it on the inside.
I have no trouble picturing Peter stepping out of that boat, all cocky happy about being God’s man.
It’s a great place to be, that in a boat with Jesus.
Then you step out in call and you think you can do this thing, kind of like all by yourself.
That’s just about the time you get confident in the saving power of your own stride, mighty wind aside. Torrentially, you slip, as though you had been on a rock and now it is gone. There is nothing but nothing in a substance of something you cannot feel.
The air feels gone as you feel the fall.
Your breath is taken right out of you and then in some quick, in some unobservable way,
you hit the waves,
unable to control a single step.
Everything is soaked.
After what seems like forever, somebody reaches for you.
Someone has you.
It’s a coming back.
A revival awakening.
It’s a deliverance you will live to tell about.
It will be a cleansing of the worthless self confidence earthy feet give.
It will now become the hope of confidence in the Deliverer.
It is now strength in His joy.
Truth has ocean sprayed your soul.
You can stand again.
Your Savior stands with you, for you, in you.
Breathe the fresh air of life in the walk of faith.
Keep your eyes on the Sustainer.
Without Him, you can do
nothing.
~ Ann Stewart Porter
I really like this. Thank you 🙂
Dionne
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Thank you for reading! Blessings! 😜💞
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Your welcome hun 😃
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