Ok. You were in the desert. You hated it. You couldn’t stay there. You were desperate for change. So what did you do? You took matters into your own hands. You thought it couldn’t get any worse. But you’re quickly discovering you were wrong. Your situation just got harder, and you know it’s because of the choice(s) you made. Now instead of wandering around the wilderness, you’re at the bottom of a 10-foot hole, still stuck in the desert. You know you dug your own ditch, and it just seems to be getting deeper and deeper no matter what you do. You are sinking and sinking fast. What now?
Well, let me tell you my friend.
You look up. You come to Him. You approach the Throne of Grace.
You humble yourself before the Mercy Seat. You know there is no shame in His
presence? Not an ounce. That’s not the way He works. Conviction, yes. Shame,
absolutely not. Repentance is necessary. Accusation—there is none.
If you find yourself in this position, and chances are that
you either have or you will or both, the best wisdom is: Get into His Presence.
There is nothing He cannot fix. He is our Redeemer, and that does not stop at
the cross. He is the Repairer of Broken Things. He is our Defender, the One who
fights on our behalf, and both the battle and the victory are His. Of course He
is going to fight on your behalf; you are His Beloved child!
But first things first. He will want to deal with your heart
and the motivating factor that led you to make the, let’s say, not so wise
choice(s) you made. It’s not your circumstance or situation that concerns Him
as much as what is in your heart that led you there.
Perhaps it was a lack of wisdom. You made a foolish choice,
but you didn’t even realize it was foolish at the time. And now you’re paying
for it.
Perhaps you don’t
truly believe He is good and has good things for you, so you tried to get good
things for yourself, only it turned out what you thought was good was in
actuality, terrible. You are not alone and you are not the first to do so (or
the last!).
Perhaps you just got tired of waiting, and thought “Anything
is better than nothing.” But maybe now you’ve reconsidered, would like to turn
back the clock and have nothing rather than the “something” you’re stuck with.
It honestly doesn’t matter what it is; He just wants to deal
with it. And He will do that by showing you who He is. That’s what changes us,
revelation of Him. So if we want change, we have got to get into His Presence
and allow Him to reveal Himself to us, to reveal His love, His goodness, His
faithfulness. You know, He is so committed to you. He gave His Son for you!
There ain’t anyone else on the planet, at any point in history who would be
willing to do that for you (well, no sane person at least…).
If you want change, you have to embrace the fact that change comes when He changes us. The
same “us” in different circumstances will be the same; there will be no change.
We will, again, find ourselves at the bottom of a pit we can blame no one but
ourselves for digging. But the great thing is, He can leave us in the exact
same situation, change us, and everything
changes.
Along the way, He will of course change our circumstances
and our situations as well. He will lead us where He wants us. But He won’t do
it to get us out of the hole. He will do it to bless us, to challenge us, to
grow us, to reveal His glory in greater ways, because after all, it’s all about
Him.
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