I've been stuck for the last couple of months and a friend of mine posted something to her Face book page a few days ago that I read and thought, hmmmm, that's a good on. I'll tuck that away for future use, but it doesn't really apply to me now. The quote was, "If you are spiritually stagnant, go back to the last thing God told you to do that you didn't do.....and do it." written by Pastor Steve Dulin. However, as I was laying in bed last night at around 3:30am, reevaluating my life, I recalled this quote. Why has my blog been on pause, why have I been in this stuck mode and I remember a blog that I wanted to write, but I didn't consider it be something God had wanted me to share right then. I just thought, I'll get around to it one day. Last night, God revealed that I had been, well, disobedient.
So, here it is.
One evening I was bathing my almost 3 year old little girl, Bugsy. I whisked her out of the tub, put a towel around her, and took her out into the den to dress her in her jammie wammies, yes, jammie wammies, there is even a dance! But, she wouldn't take off the towel. She was, "Too cooooold!" I pleaded and insisted that if she would just put her jammie wammies on and wrap a fuzzy blanket around her that she would be warmer. After a few minutes of going back and forth, she finally gave in to my plan.
In that moment, the Lord spoke to me. He said, "So many of my people refuse to take off the towel for something far better." That got me to thinking about a sermon that I heard by Pastor Frank Bailey about not taking off the grave clothes when we've given our life to Jesus Christ. The premise is that we accept Jesus into our lives,, but keep all those things that keep us bound, grave clothes, tied tightly around us. God wants us to stop fighting, take off the towel, the grave clothes, and trust and let go. There is so much freedom to be found in Jesus, but we have to take off those things that seem comfortable to us and become uncomfortable for a moment to get where we truly want to be.
"Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make the roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43: 18-19
