Getting unstuck in this life

Getting unstuck in life is living beyond our sight, rituals, traditions, and/or what works for me but taking risk on faith as a result of god-nudges. J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potters book phenom, is right - It is our choices…that shows what we truly are, far more than our abilities. Yet, we are stuck in our rut unmoving. Unwilling to move expand, beyond the moment, the position, or placement. We find ourselves locked to what is, we are unwilling to ask for help, when we don’t know how to change, yet we wonder ‘why?’. More importantly, we find it unacceptable to change for progression, and thinking it just change for ‘process.’ Looking to expanding our intellectual database on life, that does not fit in our ‘known’ world; is difficult. The adaptation of a multiple perspective in a diversified world allows for us to forego ego, pride, and/or fear affiliations. We must stop this madness, or become victims of its demise. Yet, we  have the audacity to repeat this verse -1 Cor. 2:9 - However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” the things God has prepared for those who love him. However, this is difficult to do when you will not let go on the mindset of this is the way it always been and it works, why fix it. However, if it does not help those it was meant to help, or reach those you are trying to reach, then it does not work it is no longer relevant or revelational. The verse says, you have not conceive it in your mind, thus it is an unknown, but faith, god-nudges, and God’s word allows you to go into the unknown trusting God will reveal all in His time, not yours, and it will be bananas, phenomenal, showers of blessings, etc. For God uses all things to speak to His people, and it does not always come in the fashion, package we desire, but what gets our attention.

Getting unstuck is difficult but wholly necessary for progress, success, accomplishments, and fulfilling our destiny…So, the next time you are stuck, read these verses -  

Ps. 119:133- Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.-  not my way, but God’s way.

Deuteronomy 31:6- Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you."

Proverbs 3:5-6 "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight."

Daniel 2:21-22 - “Praise be to the name of God forever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he deposes kings and raises up others. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.  He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.

Releasing emotional attachments, and seeking what is right

Rom. 1:14-15 - I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome (NIV)…

We can't continue to only agree with who we like, who agrees with our position or emotional triggers, or reach out to those who align with us but we must reach across the aisle for the best outcome for the whole body.  We should agree with the right position, not connection or what we have the right to do, or on our side. It is self-destructive and self-defeating. No one has ever grown, developed, transformed, or achieved by not willing to seek right and move outside of their comfort zone. They may receive celebrity status but yet crippled psychologically, emotionally, or spiritually.  They are stunted and remain in the place where they stopped growing; look and see its all around you; until the work is gone back to repair, deal with it, it is the monkey on the back that breaks us.  The reason God said, come as you are, not wait until you are closer to getting it right; He knows you, me or us can't do it by our self. 

See, God entertains questions, for He knows the questions are not just about the questions but also the questioner. If you fail to address the questioner, you fail to address the question.  The reason He answered with parables and/or another question.  He understood it was more than the question in words being asked. The question had to come from somewhere, it was not idle chatter, inane questions, just because who, or where it comes from; out the mouth of the babes truth speaks, so truth, revelation can come from those we think of as clowns; they could be the clowns of God to teach us, not hinder us.  So, seek to release the emotional attachments that connect you and box you in, impeding your sustaining growth.   Seek after what is right, what provides legacy and move you beyond legendary in this life because legends are greater but legacy leaves something to build upon. However, legacy comes from a unselfish place where the things done affect others, and the person is not infected by the chaos around them. ..It is tight, it difficult, at times lonely, but it is right…  It is your choice, choose wisely…Its important...

Is it control or submission?

Eph. 5:22-24 - Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives and Husbands Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.  (NIV)

Control or submission is the issue and question here. Why? This verse has been the bane of many women existence. However, the problem as occurred because we don’t get this truth of this verse Acts. 20:35 - In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ” - keying in on its more blessed to give than to receive. The more likely than not, the struggle with submitting to the husband or anyone else, is this - we intrinsically know, innate sense about a person, they are asking for what they have not given. Therefore, when you have submitted, you get it. You begin ‘to see’ it is not about control, and realized it is about humility, not arrogant pride that cripples us. Then, we can let God fight our battles, prepare the table before us in the presence of our enemies, and be still and know He is God.

We cannot do this in our relationships, when we do not.  It does not matter what kind of relationship it s, we are creating mêlée when we do not ‘get it’ because we desire control. When you truly understand what control, being in power means, we are overwhelmed by the sheer immensity of it. For it takes us to task with every decision, because it is not emotional driven, not a flash in the pan grab an issue and go, but rather it is discovered it is the about staying the course. Staying the course and doing what is right, not what we have the right to do for it is predicated by our emotional laden egos. The tears roll down knowing one must do, what is seen as a sacrifice for the future greater good, but there is a presence hurt one cannot explain because it is out of the cultural norm to do.

See when we learn, we do not get, what we are unwilling to give; then we shall see changes morph in our lives and those around us. Yes Virginia, we must be open to the experience of not being in control and trusting in God’s will and way. Now don’t get me wrong, I am not speaking about the religious zealot, or being spiritual bigot, rather I am speaking of this example in the bible illustrated in this verse by Peter Acts 11:8-10 - “I replied, ‘Surely not, Lord! Nothing impure or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ This happened three times, and then it was all pulled up to heaven again. Know this not just about Peter eating food, it about willingness to submit to be the true leader God called him out to be; live his destiny. He had to let go of those prefabricated perceptions that boxed him in, to see the true meaning of leading, having power….smiling..By doing so, his action showed us how to accurately embrace this verse, we far many times quote, but not willing to implement into our lives in the godly sense - 1 Cor. 2:9-10 - However, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him “but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit. None of this happens without submitting, not holding fast to this thing called ‘control’ because it base on our fear, not faith.  

This is applicable to the non-secular world as well the secular world. See godly principles, percepts are universal, not limited to non-secular, or some things but all things…Learn to submit and see. No one is saying be a pushover Christ submitted and yet had the power to lead, but he had to submit first. Choose this day, and choose wisely…It’s important.