I hate cleaning. I mean, I’ll do it, but it takes a lot to make me want to. It doesn’t bring me joy. Yesterday was a day for cleaning in our house. We’d intended to put away Christmas decorations a week ago but my head was killing me and it was all I could do to sit upright for nourishment. Netflix and cuddle my pillows on the bed was literally what I did between zoning out and napping.
I found things from before I was married that I should have let go a long time ago. Funny how that is. We hold on to things for sentimentality and then we don’t remember exactly why we still cling to those things years later.
But hey! I at least have decided to let some of my clothes have a new life with someone new.
It reminds me of a verse in Isaiah. “Do not call to mind the former things, Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, Rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV)
When I felt God placing the word abide on my heart as a focal point for the year, I thought “well, that’s nice. I’ll just stay here, and let God do all the work.” But now, while I’m still letting God do all the work, I’ve noticed a sense of newness in my life, a joy that goes beyond the surface. It’s like that song I used to sing all the time in youth group… “I’ve got a river of life flowing out of me.”
Friends, readers, here’s some good news. God can deliver you from that deep place that you feel like you’re drowning, where you can’t breathe or see the light of day. That place that is so far from where you want to be that you can’t see the path… He can do it. He can make rivers in the desert and roadways in the wilderness, even when you can’t see your hand in front of you.
How are you hoping and praying for deliverance? Where are you so lost and lonely that you don’t feel like you can make it? Reach out. He’s there.
In Him, Karen
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