This seems to be my season for reflection. Recently I’ve been looking at my life, and not just at what I am doing or not doing…more of what God is doing. I feel like something is taking place in the Spirit that God is not ready to show me yet. Like there are some things I need to do…some things God wants to teach me before He can take me there.

I was having a talk with a friend, and in her conversation…without her even knowing it, God began to speak. What He said through her is that all of those little irritations we keep having are just distractions. He wants to take us deeper, but we keep letting foolishness get in the way. 

It’s hard to recognize that at first because we are so agitated about the situation that we are not even looking for the lesson. All we know is that it is getting on our nerves, and we wish it would go away, or God would just make it stop. But, that’s not how God works. 

For instance, a supervisor will do something that is so far out in left field that you begin to wonder if maybe they are on something, or you feel yourself being embarrassed by someone else’s behavior when it has absolutely no reflection at all on you. Why? What is that about? What we discovered was that it was not those people or those situations that was the problem…it was us. 

I remember a long time ago a friend told me that it is always about us. What she meant was that when something affects us that way, it usually means that it is speaking to what is inside of us. So, if that situation or that person is bugging us to no end…we need to ask God what is that thing tapping into that is inside of us? 

I believe God is trying to get us to that place where it doesn’t matter what anybody else does…we are content in Him. We follow Him. The Apostle Paul got it…and I am determined to get it. What about you?

Until next time…

Be blessed