Lately, I’ve been feeling squeezed. You name the direction – it’s been coming…squeezing.
Yesterday, I found myself again saying, “WHY can’t this be easy?” I so want to electric slide up and hit the Easy button…
but that’s not what’s best for me.
I don’t attend the church of Staples.
When I’ve hit the easy button, I didn’t need to depend on God. Just the opposite, I felt all big and cool and patted myself on the back saying, “Good job self!” and gratitude to God was nowhere to be found.
Blech.
You know what I’m going to do about this squeezing season? Draw close to God and do exactly what God designed and gifted me to do. (Aka: be found as faithful as this crazy Jersey girl can be found). I’m going to step up to the computer, and prayerfully encourage you as I’m also encouraging myself. If you are finding yourself also in a non-easy-button-kind-of-season, join me and hit the Jesus button.
Strive with me to embrace what James 1:2-4 (Message) directs,
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
Take your hands off your life, step away from the easy button, and lift them up to God. Strive with me to hit the Jesus button, which means surrender every portion of your life, back to God.
Surrendering is a lot like laundry…a never-ending task. And, if you neglect doing it, life stinks.
God reminded me that I didn’t learn how to comfort a friend that’s had a miscarriage from a textbook. No, I learned it by living through three consecutive, heart wrenching miscarriages. It was and is during the
darkest, “squeezing-est” times of life where ministries are birthed, even when babies are not.
While I don’t have the answers to my many “why’s” right now, I trust that God does.
What’s an area that you want to hit the “Easy” button on? Will you strive with me to hit the Jesus button more than the easy button?
