What is holding you back? What is preventing you from moving forward? What keeps you from.......?
Often we think that it is our circumstances or opportunities or other people. I believe that we do it to ourselves.
Before you reach out and strangle me- think about the last time you put on a few pounds. Did the food do it? Did someone else make you, force you to eat it? Did the ice cream jump out of the freezer and slide down your throat? Of course not!
We make the choice of what we eat and how much. This morning I was all upset that I had gained a few pounds. My first response was to be mad at all of eating out that I have done recently.
Spiritually we also can hold ourselves back from going deeper with the Lord. It is as though we have put up a caution tape that we won't allow ourselves to go through.
He tells us to come to him and he will give us rest.
Zacchaeus was a Jewish inhabitant of Jericho and its chief tax collector, mentioned in Luke (Luke 19:1-10) watched from a distance and then Jesus invited him into a deeper relationship with him.
Today you can also go deeper. Come down from your hiding place, from watching from afar and cross through the caution tape. He is waiting for you to let go of what is stopping you and enter into his rest.
If you could take away what keeps you from being closer to the Lord, what would that feel like? The choice is yours. Take a step of faith and break through.
Often we think that it is our circumstances or opportunities or other people. I believe that we do it to ourselves.
Before you reach out and strangle me- think about the last time you put on a few pounds. Did the food do it? Did someone else make you, force you to eat it? Did the ice cream jump out of the freezer and slide down your throat? Of course not!
We make the choice of what we eat and how much. This morning I was all upset that I had gained a few pounds. My first response was to be mad at all of eating out that I have done recently.
Even in the midst of my internal tirade, I realized that I still chose to eat those meals. I also chose NOT to exercise.What is the cause of my weight gain? Me!
We all have things that stop us from intimacy with the Lord.
Whether it is;
anger or answers
fear or failure
laziness or lies
regrets or relationships
sin or shame
He tells us to come to him and he will give us rest.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28
Zacchaeus was a Jewish inhabitant of Jericho and its chief tax collector, mentioned in Luke (Luke 19:1-10) watched from a distance and then Jesus invited him into a deeper relationship with him.
Today you can also go deeper. Come down from your hiding place, from watching from afar and cross through the caution tape. He is waiting for you to let go of what is stopping you and enter into his rest.
If you could take away what keeps you from being closer to the Lord, what would that feel like? The choice is yours. Take a step of faith and break through.
Father, help me to rip away the caution tape and come to you. Remind me of the goodness and comfort of being with you. Thank you for always inviting us to more of yourself.
Reposted from my previous Blog
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