It seems that if we take our eyes off the prize that we so quickly and easily can drown in this quagmire of endless fear and gloom. The enormity of what surrounds us as we navigate these unknown pathways constantly filled with this word, Unprecedented. When it feels like we could not possibly break anymore records because such great highs and such deep lows have already been achieved where now does the measurement of this prize reside?
Where in our world of displacement and loss can I lay my weary head? Do I stop in this valley of the shadow of death because I have no energy to hike this mountain side. Because the strength that is within me does not feel like it’s greater than the strength that is in the world. I see pictures in my mind of the Von Trap family leaving everything behind as they escape the war and walk to freedom. A world from the movies that felt so far in the past is now on our doorstep again as we struggle to make sense of the blatant power grabs, the seemingly endless dollars pulled from deep power hungry pockets spent on ammunition and death. People neglecting the basic rights of humanity to be loved and free.
Do I lay down in this valley, No! He calls me to lay down in green pastures beside the bubbling brook of bliss, the waters of His goodness where He restores my soul. He calls me into oneness with Him in these times of unrest and trepidation. He calls me into that place within myself where He chooses to dwell. He calls me to remember that from the beginning of the beginning that I have everything I need inside of me, and so do we all.
It’s in this place of revelation that He speaks to my soul reminding me that I must not cram the old into the new, like a reflex just doing what comes naturally. I must connect with and be guided by Wisdom, be counselled by the seven spirits of God and be immersed in friendship with the Holy Spirit. This is a revolution of which there is no turning back, it’s a dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes and operations. A turning from one way of doing everything and to embark upon a journey on the unknown pathways not reaching back picking up old programs and paradigms, but leaning forward into Him who is in me so that I may become the light, so that we may rise as an army of awakened souls ready to embark upon this incredible moment in time, the beginning of something NEW. The beginning of the New Now.
Psalm 23:1-3
Yahweh is my best friend and my shepherd. I always have more than enough. He offers a resting place for me in his luxurious love. His tracks take me to an oasis of peace near the quiet brook of bliss. That’s where he restores and revives my life.
Isaiah 40:30-31 NLT
Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
Philippians 3:14 TPT
I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the heavenly goal and gaining the victory-prize through the anointing of Jesus.
Two Happy Gypsies 