Come and Sit

Are you becoming aware of God's desire to draw you into more life with Him? If you’re here, I know it’s because you long for more. You desire change and growth. You desire to be fully formed in this life you’ve been given with Christ.

We're fragile, image-conscious, seeking to find value in something. This gets in our way at times, but you know what? I don’t want you to disregard these things too quickly. These are the very real things in our broken selves that give Jesus a way to minister personally to us. It gives us a way to know Him as He does. We all still need Him. 

Hear me when I say, don’t look away. Set your gaze on Jesus, what He can do in you, and wait in it with Him. This is the formational journey. 

When we first glimpse something in us that makes us feel uncomfortable (sin in our hearts, guilt that plagues us, fear of real intimacy), we tend to look away and try to make it about something else. But, set your gaze on Jesus. This is the path that informs us while He forms us into Christlikeness and our truest, deepest selves. We can look at how saints who have gone before us met Him where they were at. How He met them where they were, but we must learn how to live it ourselves. We tend to avoid looking at how we feel, how we think, and why we act the way we do. We tend to fear awareness, but awareness is the gift that God designed for us to have for life. Awareness is the grace from His heart
to ours. 

I keep practicing this in my life—this awareness of my own tendencies. There’s no other way I can be formed and grow spiritually with Christ and mature as a disciple if I don’t keep noticing myself.

I’ve been doing some more writing lately. So much of it isn’t on this page yet. It’s lying quietly on the living room floor of my soul while I sit beside it. For much of my life, I’ve desired to find a way around the hard parts and run ahead to what I think will give me something better than pain and questions. I long to see the story come together because I trust Jesus and know it will be a beautiful ending. I’m aware of pieces of my life on these pages. Some feel fragmented and a little shaken up and disheveled. Other pieces on these pages feel so deep and clear and full of healed understanding. I keep noticing. I keep looking. While desiring to see things come together isn’t wrong, at times, it’s just not conducive to the inner work Christ is doing inside.

So as I continue sitting, knowing His presence with me, I’m continuing to see everything connecting and threading into my story. I’m seeing who I am. Though there have been painful years of spiritual longing and confusion, there’s someone very particular I was created to keep becoming. 

Friend, He’s not finished with our story. Because watching and waiting and tending the life of your soul is so much better than running away to try and move on from it all or staying too long to try to prove something. God knows I’ve seen myself capable of both. But, through the love of our Father, the life of Jesus, the indwelling presence of the Spirit, we’re saying yes to partnering with Him in Kingdom glory. 

The truth is the Spirit comes and stays with us and helps us receive the healing awareness and transformation we’re all in need of. When we look away or refuse to sit down, we only delay our journey to wholeness and closeness with Him and others. Yet, the Spirit still stays right here waiting for us. I appreciate how God designed us to function and learn if we're open to sitting down. God has more He's working on for me, and He does for you. 

Take a few moments right now. Come and sit on the living room floor for a little while. 

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