11/27/23 | Journal Thoughts
Today I woke up with worry, fear, and discontentment
and the first thing I did was check Instagram… then YouTube… then checked
my emails to add a cherry of worry on top of my morning.
After letting worry cloud my mind and rule my heart I started sketching in my mind a list of things “I needed to get done today.”
Many were ones left undone from yesterday and the yesterday before and the yesterday…
Finally after 2 hours of rolling around in my worry and exhausting my mind
I decided I should probably get in my word and spend some time in prayer
I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me to do this upon waking up
but I dismissed it because I was overwhelmed by the burdens that came to wake me up
When I finally built up the strength to talk to God and started to lay my burdens I felt upon waking up at my feet…
I felt the heaviness lift off of me and my mind
Be still
Then I followed by pulling out my bible and putting one a worship song in the background
The song “Lead Me to The Cross” came to my heart… It has been on my mind the last few days so I found one on YouTube sung by UpperRoom in their recent Sunday service and it completely recked me.
Not the song necessary, but the revelations the Holy Spirit spoke within the song and from the Psalm that I used to Guide my prayer time.
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Psalm 23
1The Lord is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside still waters.
3 He restores my soul;
He guides me in the paths of righteousness
For His name’s sake.
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He Leads me… He Guides Me…
That part
The LORD guides us every single day.
As The Good Shepard He leads us
through the Hills and Valleys
from the darkness, into the light
through the wilderness and into the promise land.
He is not just guiding us to a place He is leading us to a person
JESUS
The Good Shepard leads us to the Cross
He takes us from where we are stuck looking at our circumstances, inabilities, fears
and brings us to a place where we can see Him lifted high, dripping blood and yelling
“Forgive them father.”
That place doesn’t have have to be far… it came be in our car, bedroom, or on our knees
The Cross is our transfiguration moment
Where God gets to show us what he reveled to Peter, John and James
THE RADIANCE OF HIS GLORY
and the thing is..
He is waiting to do that each and very morning when we wake up.
He is excited to lead us to the cross
so we can gaze upon him… beholding his glory and leaving behind our
fears, doubts, anxieties, troubles,
So today… even if you have put off spending time with him all day
Stop… Be still and Let him lead you to the cross.
