The bible says in Psalms 66 that we are squeezed through a thin place and burdened to eventually be delivered through into a spacious one. I was meditating about this the other day and began to think about the way a child is born and how they need to go through a tiny channel where much pain and pressure is experienced. The amazing thing is that it is this passage through the narrow path that is actually responsible for stimulating and activating in the new born all that they will require in order to thrive in this new spacious place they come into called life.
I wonder how many times many of us instead of staying present and continuing to go through this natural and organic process within the narrow path instead choose to bypass it altogether and opt for a voluntary cesarean section. I also wonder if this is why Jesus said that narrow was the way and few would find it. I wonder also if this is why so few of us find our way into our hearts and instead choose to live from our minds where we are given the false feeling of being in control, like a voluntary C-section does, yet like this artificial way of delivery we then need the help of others to be stimulated every time we need activation. I wonder if this is the way most of us come to faith and this is why for us this spiritual journey so often feels artificial, irrelevant, and the by-product of a shortcut.
Ahhhh I keep wondering…but then again I guess this is what happens when we depend on the God within us and not the one without us. We just keep wondering and asking why instead of accepting it just because someone else said it…
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