So much of life is about getting there and getting it done. I know this pressure well as so often and for so much of my life I have not only been driven by it but unfortunately followed its lead.
Over the course of time I have come to understand that the problem is not feeling this pressure or drive upon us. But instead acting on it and trying to make it go away by fixing whatever appears to be broken and messy. Yet inevitably the harder we try the messier it often gets.
Some years ago as I chose to take a step back to observe this illusional reality in my life I discovered that the reason I was so keen to make it happen was so that I could run away from either the circumstances I was in or was wanting to never return to the ones I came from.
When we see life through a set of results and measure the condition of our hearts by looking at what surrounds us and we have managed to achieve we fail to see that life is meant to be a beautiful mess. And it is within that mess that we are supposed to find the beauty within us and life itself if we don’t give in to the coercion of success and try and fix it.
Today consider Joseph. If he chose to try and escape prematurely from the prison he was in he would have never gone before Pharaoh. Instead he would have spent the rest of his life running away from the very man and place that had been assigned to hold the key that was responsible for unlocking the door that would lead him into the space of significance for his life.
Consider also Jesus. He could have bailed out yet he remained and went through what would appear to all of us as the biggest mess a life can be in. Yet as he remained and didn’t give in to the pressure to make something happen he delivered the biggest victory any man ever has and any man ever will.
Many say that when the going gets tough the tough get going…yet God, as King David discovered, tells us instead of “going” to be still so we can have a chance to know (discover) that He is God, and not what all of our “going” promises to get us.
Remember – if an oyster cleaned out the grains of sand (mess) out of her domain she would never get to see the beauty of a pearl hidden within her and for that matter neither will we.
Stay present. Stay still. For it is He that is in us that is greater than the one that keeps pressuring us to get going and get it fixed.
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