Stripped
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Today I realized that God is in the process of stripping me.
I have a situation going on in my life, and I am kinda flying blind here. Planning, plotting, forethought….all goes out the window with each passing day. I can’t tell what is going to happen in the next few moments, days or weeks.
This is the type of situation that requires you to let go of trusting in any thing or any one except for God.
Nothing else matters.
Nothing else will get me through this.
Two things brought me to these conclusions. Yesterday, I made the decision to step out in faith. I decided to believe that God was going to back me up in stepping out with this situation, and I still believe that.
There are many examples of people in the Scripture doing just that…stepping out even when there is no sign of favor, and every thing is chaotic.
As I type this I am thinking about Abraham. First God tells him to leave home, go to foreign land and that Abraham was going to be a father of many. Abraham and his wife were childless. They were past the age of when it was even possible to have a child. It looked hopeless. Yet, when God spoke….Abraham believed.
Then God blesses Abraham and Sarah with a son….and God tells Abraham to sacrifice the child!
What!?
But Abraham believed….most people don’t see this one little thing Abraham says but it sure does point to where his faith was.
He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
Abraham said “we will come back to you.” I believe that by this remarkable statement that Abraham had enough faith in God that He would somehow stop everything…and fulfill His promise of making Abraham a father of many!
Early today, I got angry – again. I was told by certain people that they would help me, and when the time came – they refused. They are “Christians”, and they talk a big talk but when it actually comes time to walk in faith – excuses come pouring out.
Doubt comes pouring out.
These people are good at making you feel like the worst on thing on earth for not having enough faith…but when you actually step out in faith…they are the first ones to push you right back down!
Then it occurred to me…
I am being stripped.
Stripped of every dependence except for God. Everyone in my life that I could look to more than God is being stripped from me and pruned….so that my whole attention will be for God alone.
Commandment #1 – You shall have no other gods before me.
But in the midst of the stripping, God sends the “ram”. God sends people into your life that walks with you even though they don’t understand where faith is leading you.
God always provides…shalom (peace)!!!
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