God speaks to his people, there's no mistake about that. We read in Numbers 22 how God used a donkey to speak to Balaam. Balaam was trying to obey God but He didn't recognize the angel of the Lord and when his donkey stopped, Balaam beat his donkey, not once, not twice but three times. But then the donkey, no relation to Mr. Ed, speaks via the Lord's power so Balaam could hear what God had to say. You can check out the story for yourself in Numbers. I just wanted you to be aware that sometimes God speaks in different ways :)
Yesterday, I was playing a Wii game called Sword Showdown. In the game you are a swordsman and you are taking on 100 different opponents by yourself. You have three lives and each time you are hit, you lose a life. I am on level 6 which I can’t seem to get past. I must have played that level about 35-40 times now and I can’t win. As I was playing with the children I babysit looking on, I could feel myself growing increasingly frustrated with this imaginary game. Why? Because that’s how I often feel in life…like I can’t win. I make progress and seem to be conquering but then I take a few hits and I am down for the count or lose. It doesn’t matter how angry I get or how hard I hit to take out the opponents, I can’t seem to get the victory...yet. And I am mad. Mad at the devil and his stupid lies. And I have a feeling you might be as well.
I was reminded last night about healing being a progressive work, something I remind others about often but occasionally need the reminder myself. We often think of healing and life on a timeline with point A being said issue, point B being another. We deal with said issue but if it comes up again we feel like we have failed and that we are starting over or at least taking two steps forward and one step back. However, we need to see our lives and our healing as a spiral (Alicia Chole illustration) or a mountain (Me and Miley Cyrus illustration). Yes, we deal with issue A to the best of our ability at the time and as we go around the mountain we may tackle issue B and C but then we may come upon issue A again. When we do so, it's not a sign of defeat or setback but rather the reality that we are going further in dealing with our issues as we go up the mountain.
Miley Cyrus sings the song called The Climb and in looking at the lyrics this morning these particular verses stood out:
The struggles I'm facing
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes might knock me down
But no, I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm gonna remember most, yeah
Just gotta keep going
And I, I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on
All of that to say, I'm pushing on. And while, I may not have conquered level 6 of Sword Showdown and while I am working on conquering new levels in my life, I WILL CONQUER BOTH EVENTUALLY! As Romans 8:37 says: No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us!
We can conquer, friend. I choose to keep on fighting and I pray you will do the same!
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