Be Still

I delivered a message this past Sunday,

and in that message the Holy Spirit spoke through me, on how my life was like a see-saw or merry-go-round ride.

I would get in a relationship (see-saw ride) that took me up and down and later finding myself out of the relationship (see-saw),  yet having the lingering effects of that up and down motion.

Not waiting to have a settling of the effect from the ride.

Finding my way onto the next relationship (a merry-go-round) which took me round and round and once over,

I was dizzy from all the spinning, and yet again without settling from it's effects I just kept moving from see-saw to merry-go-round until FINALLY, I stopped and stood still.

I got my faculties about myself and glanced back, not having to look very far at all, I saw I had never gone any where.

Each time I got on the relationship ride, I went in telling myself "this time the ride would be different."

Somehow, this time the see-saw or merry-go-round will in someway go a differently than before.

It will no longer just go up and down or round and round,

but how or why would it go differently?

This is what see-saw's and merry-go-rounds do,

They go up and down or round and round, and to expect them to do anything else would be insanity.

It was insanity.

It was that moment of stillness, that the Lord had brought me to and He kept me there still

long enough to hear him say from Psalm 46:10 " Be still, and know that I am God..."

All the years I spent going from one relationship ride to the next just to find that I was still in the same place where I had gotten on.

I had never stood still long enough to recognize that these relationships were taking me no where

and than the Lord intervened in this stillness and I was able to recognize that it was this relationship

that would  move me, that would take me somewhere.

This relationship is by far no see-saw nor merry-go-round.

The Lord had a plan for my life.

I needed to be still and settle down from all the spinning and up and down

and when I did, I was able to see clearly and make a sound decision.

I was able to see that I needed a relationship with the Lord.

I was able to trust him and  still do.

I can now look back and see how far I have come.