...my wish would be...
...for God to spell out His desires for me...
D-O I-T T-H-I-S W-A-Y...
* * *
...I know that I can trust God...
.........but I have not allowed myself to fully trust Him because...
...I am bound by my fears.
I fear situations. I fear circumstances and people...
...often times I am startled or caught off guard in a situation, and those moments of fear are a normal response.
The problem lies in that I allow the fear to remain...
....The fear takes over, controls the situation and even enters other areas of my life.
Fear has kept me in a place of bondage, rather than freedom...
And so I listen for God's voice...
...I listen for His words...
....His "this is how you overcome fear..."
D-O I-T T-H-I-S W-A-Y...
Today I heard His voice...
...I know what His way is for me, and I heard His way through my pastor's words to me...
"Let go of the rope..."
I had confided in my pastor my struggles, my fears... and pastor Mark shared an excerpt from a book that his wife had just finished reading called, "The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom:
"One day a young Flemish girl, who had repented and received deliverance from lust and impurity, came to me. “Even though I have been delivered, “she said, “at night I still keep dreaming of my old way of life. I am afraid I will slip back into Satan's grasp.”
“Up in that church tower,” I said, nodding toward the belfry, “is a bell which is rung by pulling on a rope. But you know what? After the sexton lets go of the rope, the bell keeps on swinging. First ding, then dong. Slower and slower until there's a final dong and it stops. I believe the same thing is true of deliverance. When the demons are cast out in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, or when sin is confessed and renounced, then satan's hand is removed from the rope. But if we worry about our past bondage, satan will use this opportunity to keep the echoes ringing in our minds.”
A sweet light spread across the girl's face. “You mean even though I sometimes have temptations, that I am still free, that satan is no longer pulling the rope which controls my life?”
“The purity of your life is evidence of your deliverance, “I said. “You should not worry about the dings and the dongs, they are nothing but echoes.” "
Pastor Mark repeated his first words, "let go of the rope..."
God used my pastor to spell it out for me...
D-O I-T T-H-I-S W-A-Y...
....L-E-T G-O O-F T-H-E R-O-P-E...
....and I am.
....letting.
...go.
"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8
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ReplyDeleteSomeone told me that same line some years back. As long as we are still trying to figure it out ourselves and do it our way, we are still clinging to the rope. Once we let go, God will then be there to catch us and take over. He can't catch us if we are still holding on to other things. Thanks for this post, I needed to hear that again!
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