Ecclesiastes 3:11 New International Version (NIV)
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Do you see a RABBIT or a DUCK?
We all have “learned” what we know. But what happens when you wake up one day and everything you’ve known makes NO SENSE…it looks different? Books you’ve read several times have new and different meanings? Scriptures you can quote verbatim mean something so different…a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions, also known as a paradigm shift!!
Romans 7:15-20 New International Version (NIV)
15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19 For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
I have been acting like a “Cra-Cra” person. I was really strugging with this. If I am going to be honest…I STILL STRUGGLE WITH IT!!! I have done a few things that I think are good and healthy for me but this morning in my quiet time – I received these words of comfort:
Paradigm shifts are scary. You may go into a crisis of faith, because you can’t trust what your know to be accurate. You may not have a clue who you can trust or believe anymore. But the one thing you can trust and believe is the teachings of Jesus– HE is everything you need and more!!
This is what I have been doing during this current SHIFT:
I have created a safe space – couple of people who I can share, cry, pout and trust with my heart and struggles while experiencing the growing pains. These people have the same passion for following Christ as I do – they are my accountability partners.
I have identified TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS and set healthy boundaries with them. I don’t love them any less, but I don’t buy into their controlling patterns for ME & MY LIFE.
I don’t feel guilty for embrace my time alone – God put something in me that I want to invest time with HIM to excavate, cultivate, prune, water and grow HIS plan and purpose for my life.
I LOVE to READ – I LOVE to LEARN – I LOVE to STUDY and I do these things OnPurpose and I ENJOY doing so.
I AM SHIFTING.
I HAVE SHIFTED.
I WILL CONTINUE TO SHIFT.
When the student is ready…the teacher will appear!! God is all-knowing, all-power and the creator of EVERYTHING – there is nothing new under the sun…in His time, He makes everything beautiful.
God is taking everything I have ever known and making all things new!! I have new sight, new touch, new smell, new tastes and new hearing.
In my case…God has put me in a place where I cannot relay on what I know because it doesn’t fit the situation…I have to FULLY RELY ON GOD [FROG]- to see, touch, smell, taste and hear FROM HIM and not myself or my limited knowledge.
Pray this prayer with me: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. I turst Your plan for my life, I trust Your way for my life…I know You know the plans for my life, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans for hope and a future and I submit and surrender to YOU, in Jesus might name…AMEN!
Written by: The “Butterfly”
Shifting…OnPurpose!! 7/29/16
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