Through the Sea
backstory:at the end of this past semester i was thinking about my "after college plans"
dun-dun-dun-dun duhhhhh!!!!.....
and no matter what they wind up being exactly...(though i am leaning toward moving overseas...who really knows except the Lord, right?)...wherever i am i want to know more about this God whom i serve...but how? and then it hit me: it's called the Bible, stupid-> read it
teeny caveat: sad really how little we "christians" know about the "inspired Word of God"
so i asked God to help me read it more consistently
----and the next day my beloved watchcare mother gave me an early birthday present
you guessed it: a Daily Walk Bible (amazing how the God of the Universe does these small small things to remind me that He really is who He says He is!!!)
real story:
i jumped into this thing pretty excited and managed to clop my way through Job (of all the places to have to start) which actually considering the state of my life was very appropriate
but now it is June...June is all about the Psalms...
but you see- i don't really feel like reading Psalms everyday---and sometimes all the tree and mountain references kinda blur together (that happen to anyone else?)
okay so a few days ago i came upon Psalm 77- mind you it was like 1 am and the blur thing was happening- so i mustered every oz. of the Holy Spirit i have in me and made myself pay attention to that which i was reading- and boy am i glad i did
Asaph (the writer) starts off crying to God- i mean he is moaning and groaning (been there) he feels like God has rejected him...he feels forgotten by God...so what does he do? he begins to recall all that the Lord had done...and then...in the midst of his terrible situation-feeling separated from his God...what does he do now? he starts praising God (whoa) ....he starts talking about how God delivered the Israelites from the Red Sea and this is what he says:
"Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters- a pathway no one knew was there! You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds." (verses 19 and 20)
good story:
i think sometimes we tend to picture "God's will" like it is this yellow brick road and if we take one step off of it we fail or something...i'm not so sure this is true- in fact i think that might be wrong...because we all stumble...we all wander off the path...and occasionally something comes upon us that was not our doing that is downright miserable...besides i'm not sure success and failure should be things we are concerned with anyway.....the point: whatever we are dealing with...no matter what particular 'sea' we are facing--his path leads through it...not around it...not over it...but right through it...and he doesn't expect us to go it alone...no- he leads us through it!
how incredible!!!
as we stand on the edge of whatever we are facing with our past haunting us like Pharoah's army and nothing but storms ahead- we can be confident that he will make a way- a way that no one else could have seen before-- and then he will lead us on that way
....now whether the sea floor is made of yellow brick-i suppose is still up for debate
posted by Charris @ 11:28 PM
1 Comments:
It was actually pretty cool, because I was reading God in the Dock, just going through essay by essay, and that said so much what I had wanted to say in my "Eh What" entry.
By the way, Cassaundra, I miss you. How are things?
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