My thoughts in March 2008
It is the family and friends who are missing from my life or whose relationships with me have changed, that I've been thinking about lately. These changes and other things that the Father is doing are really causing me to think, pray, read, search, and write. Sometime I also choose to run. By run I mean try to forget, not think, something so I don't have to feel the hurt. Sometimes when the potter shapes the clay it hurts, well it does when the clay (a.k.a. human being) is alive. How alive are you??
Alomst everyone has used coping mechaisms to get through their life. Drugs, alcolhol, TV, books, fantasty, porn, lust, sports, music. These things we use to cope can become our God. His word says that idoltry. One person may use romance novels to cope another may use drugs. According to the world, the drugs are illegal, but not the romance novels. According to God, both are wrong.
My thoughts in October of 2011
As I look back at what I wrote in 2008 and reflect on the events of the last 3 and 1/2 years, I have new thoughts to share. Books, TV, sports, music, and movies (that edify you) in moderation are fine. We all need a break. But when we take break after break and it turns into hiding, that is a different story. Hiding, checking out, addiction, running - we use this type of behavior to block things out out. Those things could be hurt, pain, emotions etc..
Over the last three years I've come to understand my own battle with the behavior I call hiding or checking-out. The Lord has shown me where this behavior pattern started and how to begin breaking the cycle. For me, it had to do with being overwhelmed be tasks, people, and emotions. When I couldn't process certain events or emotions, I would hide.
I've gotten better. Do I still struggle? Yes. Are there times when I realize I am hiding and I must STOP, TURN, and RUN into HIS ARMS? Yes. Are there times when I want to hide and instead I choose to run to GOD with it? Oh, Yeah! Praise God!
The bottom line is this: God is our creator and we must take everything to Him. Everything - tasks, relationships, emotions, hurt, fears. To use anything else to excess in order to cope with life is sin. Because we are not trusting Him.
I urge you today to trust Him-Yeshua (Jesus) your Savior with everything. Run into His Arms my friend. Cry if you need to. Let it go. Ask Him what to do. He faithfull to answer. Yes, it is not a quick fix. It will be a process as He shows you how to come to Him rather than your old way of doing things. Blessings on your journey.
Romans 12:2 I Corinthians 13:11 Ephesians 4:22-24
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