After I shared my last blog post about my desire to slow down and find God in rest, I crawled into bed and opened up biblegateway app’s verse of the day.
Psalm 46:10. The same verse I just wrote on … this time from the Message:
I ended my last post with big desire but little direction. Somehow this divine echo of Psalm 46 helped.
Mabye it helps because I know what traffic looks and feels like … and I really dislike traffic.
Traffic is crowded, cramped. Although decidedly the most popular path, it’s pace is slow and frustrating. Its forced stop-and-go rhythm confines us, drawing us into its madness, with no exit in sight.
However, in this verse, God invites us to step out of traffic. {Be still.}
Step away from that pace of life that’s confining.
Instead, choose a different way – one that’s wide open – one that sets you free.
It makes me think of this quote I just read,
“This life with God is meant to be a relationship, not a set of rules. While our fears drive us into control and circumscribe our lives with prohibitions, the One who died for us invites us into love and a freedom that comes from trusting Him not only with our salvation but with our whole lives as well. Instead of leaving us in small stories we create for ourselves, God invites us out into spacious places, lavishing us with His delight …” (Owens)
Yes. Instead of confining ourselves only to the well-trodden way, God invites us to step out and experience Him in spacious places, lavishing us in His delight.
“He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.” Psalm 18:19
This is the way I’m fighting for this summer. The less-traveled, windows-down, hair-blowing-in-the-wind kind of way.
Now to find my exit …
What does traffic look and feel like to you? Do you have any desire to find your way out in order to take a long, loving look at Jesus? What do you think it might take for you to find your exit?
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