For the past several weeks I have had this picture in my mind
about the butterfly.
It’s a very specific part of the formation of the butterfly that the Lord kept drawing me to. It started with some reflection in my quiet time. I was thinking back to this journey I have been on. For a very long time it felt long and dark and confining, and
virtually hopeless. I felt very pressed.
“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed” (2 Cor 4:8-9). But then there was this spark in me and suddenly I wanted to
get up and fight again. The struggle got really real, really quick. I was back up on my feet, but it was difficult with every move I made.
Some days still are very difficult; though they are lessening. When we are in a place like this, it’s easy to wonder where God is in it all, but we
know, “He will never leave us or forsake us” (Duet. 31:6). So I continued to press in to God. I wanted out; to be completely free; to fulfill my destiny.
~So what is this place I was in? It’s the moment just before you break out.~
It seems a little lonely. It’s hard. You’re tired.
What is He doing in all this?
He’s training
you.
He’s preparing you.
He’s making you strong in Him
so that you can withstand all that is to come,
and all that you will do.
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