Coming Back to Where it All Started

And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” Exodus 3:12 (NIV) emphasis added

Hello everyone!

Around an hour or so ago, I finished pushing into another encounter with God in light of recent revelations that I've been blatantly making towards my c... nope, you're not going to hear me talk about it so much anymore!

Why?

It has on the one hand done me a favour in freeing me up to talk about it, but on the other hand, I started to see, thanks to a message from Elevation Church that I watched tonight, it was slowly creeping its way onto the throne of my heart, somewhere God should have been all along...

Returning to the Source

This week's reading comes straight after Moses made the protest that God could not have meant that he was the one to deliver God's people from the land of slavery. But what did God do...?

He batted that objection aside and told him that the proof of what he was to achieve was that they would come right back to the place where it all started; where God told Moses that He was going to use him to bring about deliverance for the Israelites.

Now it's at this point that I'd normally start talking about my... no, not after tonight I won't so much!

Why?

It has been dethroned from its place in my heart and I therefore refuse to give it anymore air time than it deserves!

Have the feelings changed? Not at all, I'm still completely potty about her!

What has changed is that I've had a revelation tonight that, in talking about it so much on here, I was in fact breathing into it and making it appear bigger in my life than it actually is.

Recently, I discovered a fantastic song from Elevation Church called "Greater" and, whilst not exactly new, the message it sends out is simply sublime; God is greater than anything I can ever, ever face: -

"God, You are greater"... I think that says it all, really, doesn't it?!

Sometimes, you have to be willing to go back to where it all started in order to see something change!

Split Loyalties & Divided Houses Don't Stand a Chance

Do you see what happened for me?

I went back to the very place that has been occupying so much of my time in order to gain a fresh perspective on everything that I am currently walking through and God has led me to where I am today; a place where I'm happy to be alive and, right now, happy to be single!

But anyways, I digress...

In returning to the place where it all began, be it a past hurt/trauma, or a failed job encounter, we begin to realise that even in those moments, even in the moments of our darkest hours, God is still on the throne and He still wants to use us!

I have bleated on and on about my cru... nope, still not saying it... whilst I was talking about perspective that God was giving me in the midst of this, I was still breathing life into it making it bigger and bigger when I should have not been splitting my focus in two; God and my problem!

My heart, therefore, is now bent 100% toward God and, if she's reading this then she can take comfort from that because I'm only interested, right now, in pursuing His presence and raising up a fearless generation for His Name!

Final Thought

As I wrap up this week's belated devotional, I'm left to wonder what the future holds now that I've not only found my True North that I have been so desperately seeking since April and found a greater perspective on life altogether.

I know that I have to keep building on this in order to gain momentum: -

I love this song to bits at the minute and cannot get enough of it, it's on my phone ready to inspire me whenever I need it!

As I go towards the next phase of my journey, I am glad that I, for want of a better phrase, ignored my friend's advice because in telling me to come to the shallows, I would have missed out on tonight's experience.

It was the aftermath of my Momentum: Overflow celebration that I was doing last night that triggered tonight's, um, Momentum: Overflow Aftermath (?) where God has already told me that He's taking me deeper to drown the fears out of me in order to take me even deeper still!

So who do I trust? The words of a friend or the words of God?

Watch the skies!