When we’re not so busy pushing in to belong, we step back and behold. We find we’re beloved right here with wide spaces for God to work.
– Alia Joy, http://www.narrowpathstohigherplaces.com
We need space in order to appreciate the bigger picture.
When we hold things too tight or are too insecure to take a step back, we can miss what is really going on:
You are beloved.
All the time.
There is nothing you can do to change how much God adores you. He may like your behavior more some days, but His love for you is secure.
God is always working for your good.
All the time.
He doesn’t start working on you, and get distracted by something new, and shuffle you to a waiting area or holding zone. He finishes all He starts.
We are in.
All the time.
Once you become part of the family, you are in. For eternity. You may lose sight of that truth, but God doesn’t.
You are secure.
The closer we hold things tight, the less room we give God to move in the ways He is longing to. We need space. Wide open spaces to run free, rest and be rejuvenated. Freedom to just be.
God is in those wide open spaces when we leave the room for Him to work in them.
I was in a job a few years ago that didn’t want to stay relegated to just being work. It wanted to invade home and private time, and refused to stay in the boundaries it needed to in order for me to keep working there.
God clearly told me to take the leap, let the job go and trust Him to work in the void it would leave behind.
I now work for 8 different businesses doing what I love to do. My job security has been left in God’s hands versus my own, and He has taken me further than I could have envisioned.
He knows me better than I know myself.
And I am so glad.
When we know we are secure no matter what, we are able to hope for the future, trust God will provide, and build our faith for God to move us beyond our expectations into our dreams.
I have a few areas left in my life that God has had me taken my hands off of trying so hard in, and trust they will happen in His timing. Not mine.
So as we wait for God, may we all experience the security in knowing He is for us, and He will bring all His plans for us to pass as we rest in His release and timing.
KARLA LEES 