Does anyone else feel like they have been being stretched lately? This entire year I feel like I have been on a stretcher naturally, spiritually and emotionally. I have been stretched in the area of patience. Then, I will be stretched in my schedule. Then, before I can catch my breath I get stretched in my physical body. I started awhile back to complain and ask God, "Hey, what's up? I'm feeling a little abandoned here!" I was surprised when He answered me since I was being such a whiner. He said, "I am stretching you because I have more for you to do and I am getting you ready.
I'd like to say, "Yeah God, keep it up." I actually said, "Whoa wait minute God, I am not sure I can take much more stretch." He didn't seem to hear me. To this day God is still stretching me.
I'd like to say, "Yeah God, keep it up." I actually said, "Whoa wait minute God, I am not sure I can take much more stretch." He didn't seem to hear me. To this day God is still stretching me.
Those who have played sports know the value of stretching. If we don’t stretch prior to the game then a serious injury is not far away.
God is stretching us because He knows what lay ahead, the challenges that are coming.
In the beginning they are small and limited stretches, like when our computer goes down, the car stops or gets a flat tire, or when a relationship ends. But in these stretches God is getting us ready for the challenges and setbacks that are on the horizon.
Maybe it’s a financial setback like the loss of a job, residence, or retirement fund. Maybe it involves our family life like a divorce or loss of someone we love. It also may involve our health like when we hear the word, “cancer,” or when we have a heart attack or stroke.
Therefore it’s important we learn how to stretch properly in the small tests of faith so we’re not blown away in the major ones.
God is stretching us because He knows what lay ahead, the challenges that are coming.
In the beginning they are small and limited stretches, like when our computer goes down, the car stops or gets a flat tire, or when a relationship ends. But in these stretches God is getting us ready for the challenges and setbacks that are on the horizon.
Maybe it’s a financial setback like the loss of a job, residence, or retirement fund. Maybe it involves our family life like a divorce or loss of someone we love. It also may involve our health like when we hear the word, “cancer,” or when we have a heart attack or stroke.
Therefore it’s important we learn how to stretch properly in the small tests of faith so we’re not blown away in the major ones.
“‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,’ says the Lord. ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.’” (Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV)
ACTION STEP: Don’t resist the stretch.
If the rubber band is not used and stretched from time to time it will dry out, rot, and loose it’s elasticity. It no longer is able to be what it was created for.
There’s nothing easy about being stretched, but if we don’t allow God to stretch us, then we’ll never be what He has created us for, because our life with God is lived in the stretch.
If the rubber band is not used and stretched from time to time it will dry out, rot, and loose it’s elasticity. It no longer is able to be what it was created for.
There’s nothing easy about being stretched, but if we don’t allow God to stretch us, then we’ll never be what He has created us for, because our life with God is lived in the stretch.
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