Seasons of waiting are just before you have to move. If God has called you to wait -- he is about to make you move. And the longer the wait is the bigger the move is.
While following I catch myself so often second guessing a lead because I don't want to move too soon. I am so afraid of jumping the lead, therefore I hesitate which is just as bad. I am not sure, I don't want to make a mistake -- I was given a lead and I don't know exactly what move it is... AHHH! what do I do??? I don' t know where I'm going!! Eeep!
You just have to move with it... follow the momentum, it will take you somewhere.
Don't be afraid do leap out of a season of waiting when God move you to. Go for it. Honestly you are never going to be completely sure. A leader leads me forward... and then what? I have to move even if I'm not sure how.
Let go of that fear of mistake, don't be afraid to jump in. God has put you through a season of waiting and now he has lead you to move. Go for it... if you heart is truly wrapped up in his, then you will be okay. You have been faithful, so will He.
I am talking mostly to myself here, I don't know where I am going... and I have been told a very peaceful "wait" -- and I am enjoying this time of waiting... I just pray that I will not be too afraid to jump when the times comes. I pray that when I feel Him lead me that I will move without hesitation. I am actively waiting... so I can act.
Don't be afraid that you are wrong, Jesus is the best leader, he will show you the way. That first step- sometimes you just have to go for it.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thinking.
Who thinks too much? Yeah. I am typically not one of you. I make things simple, easy. Life is not complicated unless you make it that way. Life can be simple -- that does not mean boring - -but it does not have to be hard to understand, ALL of the time. Yes I know there are things that throw us for a loop. Trust me, I am there. But a way that makes things simple is faith. My God is good. My Savior is loving. My Creator is in control. I am okay. I tend to not over think things... then I also tend not to think things through. Yes. I ended up in Mexico for a month on a whim and I walked cross country for 9 days with thousands of women... (odd little adventure of mine). But the point is. I just jumped into that. I did not ponder, nor mull over this -- I had the opportunity. Why Not?
Why not? I say that maybe a bit to often.
So now that I have confessed the faults to my last of contemplation I would now like to expound upon its virtues. Thinking too much can get you in a much trouble as not thinking enough. Not jumping may be safer, but how many times do you think yourself out of an adventure?
Let me illustrate with dancing.
Recently I have been learning dance from an AMAZING teacher. I want to be a good dancer -- so I've got to work at it. And this teacher has pointed out many many many many many things I do not do right and things I should be doing that I simply don't do because I didn't know I should. And when I do these things right. WOW! It feels SO good when you do it right. And with his pointers I seen even MORE things I need to work on....
Before I just danced. I just did what I could and had fun doing it. It was simple. It was easy. But I would NEVER trade what I have learned over though experience and teaching for anything.
But I do get myself into a wee bit of trouble. Now I have SO much to think about! And I try to think about it all at once. I want SO badly to do it right. I want to be a good follow, I want to be a good student. i want to make my teacher proud -- but what happens when I think so much?
When I think so much I don't dance. I'm just going through the motions of dance. I am not DANCING. There is a difference. Dancing is natural, making my body obey my mind is not. Dancing flows through the music, through the leader, through the follow-- there can't be a buffer in the brain. YES every thing I learn I put into my dancing, but it cannot be my conscious effort all the time. There is no freedom there. No dancing. No fun. So as I learn more and more and more. I have to learn to BE not to do.
As with the Walk of a Believer, we ARE we don't DO. What I mean is, I do not think a true follow of the Messiah should have to try very hard to be a witness to those around him or her. It is not a conscious effort -- it is who you are, what you are. In Romans 8 it talks about the Spirit being life -- that life flows through us, we shouldn't have to force it out. WHO you are dictates what you do. Following Christ is not something we try very hard to force ourselves to do. We do not learn his laws and rules and ideas and try very hard to squish ourselves into them. Jesus changes who we are-- we strive for his likeness with whole hearts. This is not an easy thing, but yet, it is a state of being-- not doing.
Being a dancer is not knowing what you should do and how you should hold your body. It is moving. It is WHAT you are not what you do.
Why not? I say that maybe a bit to often.
So now that I have confessed the faults to my last of contemplation I would now like to expound upon its virtues. Thinking too much can get you in a much trouble as not thinking enough. Not jumping may be safer, but how many times do you think yourself out of an adventure?
Let me illustrate with dancing.
Recently I have been learning dance from an AMAZING teacher. I want to be a good dancer -- so I've got to work at it. And this teacher has pointed out many many many many many things I do not do right and things I should be doing that I simply don't do because I didn't know I should. And when I do these things right. WOW! It feels SO good when you do it right. And with his pointers I seen even MORE things I need to work on....
Before I just danced. I just did what I could and had fun doing it. It was simple. It was easy. But I would NEVER trade what I have learned over though experience and teaching for anything.
But I do get myself into a wee bit of trouble. Now I have SO much to think about! And I try to think about it all at once. I want SO badly to do it right. I want to be a good follow, I want to be a good student. i want to make my teacher proud -- but what happens when I think so much?
When I think so much I don't dance. I'm just going through the motions of dance. I am not DANCING. There is a difference. Dancing is natural, making my body obey my mind is not. Dancing flows through the music, through the leader, through the follow-- there can't be a buffer in the brain. YES every thing I learn I put into my dancing, but it cannot be my conscious effort all the time. There is no freedom there. No dancing. No fun. So as I learn more and more and more. I have to learn to BE not to do.
As with the Walk of a Believer, we ARE we don't DO. What I mean is, I do not think a true follow of the Messiah should have to try very hard to be a witness to those around him or her. It is not a conscious effort -- it is who you are, what you are. In Romans 8 it talks about the Spirit being life -- that life flows through us, we shouldn't have to force it out. WHO you are dictates what you do. Following Christ is not something we try very hard to force ourselves to do. We do not learn his laws and rules and ideas and try very hard to squish ourselves into them. Jesus changes who we are-- we strive for his likeness with whole hearts. This is not an easy thing, but yet, it is a state of being-- not doing.
Being a dancer is not knowing what you should do and how you should hold your body. It is moving. It is WHAT you are not what you do.
Be prepared. (how many of you started singing?)
I have of late been pondering the concept of waiting. It seems that I, and several of my dearest friends are in a season of wait. For some it can be described at a time of dread of the unknown, for some a period of expectation, some hope, some a stall out-- for me it is a season of preparation. (I so badly want to burst into the song from the Lion King -- Some Disney friends are rubbing off on me. )
Be prepared. What am I being prepared for? I have no idea. That has been the theme lately. I don't know, and I don't have to-- it is not my responsibility to move... yet.
When I dance half the time I am waiting for the next move to be lead. If I think I know what is coming and I act on that I over jump the leader and mess the whole thing up. If I am afraid to move -- second guessing the lead I felt, again, I have botched things up. (Thank God for great leaders who can handle my following and still have amazing dances!) So what should I be? I am prepared, I am waiting. Every muscle in my body is ready to move, my balance is stable, my weight committed -- I am ready to go! Go where dunno. But I am ready. Waiting takes as much skill and strength as doing, but when the times comes we cannot hold back.
Perhaps God is waiting for us to be on the right foot, or even he is wanting us to build up enough momentum to fly into the new adventure he has for us. But whatever awaits, are we prepared? Waiting is not a bad thing, it is simply the compression before the tension. The Potential energy before kinetic. And when you have been given, granted even, a long period of waiting thank God, because he is about to do something AWESOME. Ready?
Be prepared. What am I being prepared for? I have no idea. That has been the theme lately. I don't know, and I don't have to-- it is not my responsibility to move... yet.
When I dance half the time I am waiting for the next move to be lead. If I think I know what is coming and I act on that I over jump the leader and mess the whole thing up. If I am afraid to move -- second guessing the lead I felt, again, I have botched things up. (Thank God for great leaders who can handle my following and still have amazing dances!) So what should I be? I am prepared, I am waiting. Every muscle in my body is ready to move, my balance is stable, my weight committed -- I am ready to go! Go where dunno. But I am ready. Waiting takes as much skill and strength as doing, but when the times comes we cannot hold back.
Perhaps God is waiting for us to be on the right foot, or even he is wanting us to build up enough momentum to fly into the new adventure he has for us. But whatever awaits, are we prepared? Waiting is not a bad thing, it is simply the compression before the tension. The Potential energy before kinetic. And when you have been given, granted even, a long period of waiting thank God, because he is about to do something AWESOME. Ready?
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