In seasons
where we find ourselves
hard
pressed on every side,
prayer
feels much like an exercise in
"holding
the tension."
There is
the place where we are
and this
place we want to be.
There is
the way we thought it would be
and there
are the circumstances before us.
The only thing we know is that
we are not in control.
There is
darkness, doubt and confusion.
There will
be light, faith and understanding.
But not
yet.
And we
somehow know this is the place
that God
has us and He is with us.
His Spirit hovers over
dark places.
And His
voice breaks through darkness.
A
dark fog draped over the deep
while God’s
spirit-wind hovered
over the
surface of the empty waters.
Then the
voice of God pierced the darkness.
Genesis 1:2
As we stand
in tension, in pain, in loss,
we are more
willing to be silent.
We are more
willing to receive His grace
and listen
for His voice.
His voice,
the sound of grace, asks for our
doubts,
fear and insecurities.
It pushes
back our self-made borders.
When hard
pressed, I cried to the Lord;
He brought
me into a spacious place.
Psalm
118:5
When hard-pressed, we cry out to the Lord.
His
relentless love meets us and
brings us into a place that's larger
than the one we just left.
than the one we just left.
We can get
comfortable with small lives;
there is
nothing small about the love of God.
He brought
me out into a spacious place;
He rescued
me because He delighted in me.
Psalm
18:19
There is this beautiful tension of
darkness
and light, of doubt
and faith,
of
confusion and understanding.
It is
called Holy Mystery.
In these places of darkness,
I hear Him hovering.
And trust that all that He is
working behind the scenes,
working behind the scenes,
working all things together for good.
They all
realized they were
in a place
of Holy Mystery and
that God
was at work among them.
Luke
7:16
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