“WILL COMPLETELY KNOCK THE WIND OUT OF OUR SAILS”
Those were the words from Devon Franklin that got my attention in a Youtube sermon. He said:
“There will be things that happen to us, traumas and tragedies and challenges, that will stop us in our tracks. That will completely knock the wind out of our sails. It’s going to happen. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. That’s what the word says. The key is not when those moments happen. The key is how do we respond to them. One of the most critical things in life is to keep moving to KEEP GOING. Yes, I’m hurt. I don’t have all the answers, but I’ve decided who I am. So, even in the midst of the hurt, I gotta keep moving in the direction of where I’m being called.
I don’t know who I’m talking to tonight, but God is telling me to tell you, ‘It’s time to move again.” What you went through was real, but even the Israelites had a specific time to mourn the loss of Moses, and then God said, ‘Yo, mourning time is up. You got to get up and go to the Promised Land. I know Moses is not going to make it with you. I know you’re sad about that, but you got to keep moving; you got to KEEP GOING.
I loved this portion of the sermon so much, I did a scrappy screen recording of it and shared it on YouTube yesterday evening, giving it the title, “KEEP GOING” thinking someone else may need to hear that message. Fast forward to this morning, I opened my meditation book, He and I, and look what incredibly showed up from where I had last left off from:
“The keynote, Lord?”
“KEEP GOING (Wink! Wink!). Do good.”
Wow! Another God wink where, out of the blue, everything lines up EXTREMELY too perfectly to be some ordinary coincident. It was God lovingly figuring out a way of letting me know that this was a message from Him to me. I’m telling you; God is in the fires with us. He is in the storms with He. He is in the struggles with us.
What kind of love is this? A love that I want to share with you, so you don’t miss out on an extraordinary life with God. Yes, like Devon said, “The rain falls on the just and the unjust,” but we can be confident that it’s from the hands of a loving God who doesn’t make mistakes.
The thing that knocked the wind out of my sail was one of the best things that could have happened to me. God has given me a new life where I can rest on His heart, while still moving towards His purpose for my life, knowing that His yoke is easy and His burden is light as He walks with me. As I surrender all my worries and concerns over to Him, I can just show up as my best, most loving, happiest, joyful, and peaceful self, knowing He is fighting my battles for me. I do my best with them, and confidently leave the rest with Him. Amen. He said to me through the ‘He and I’ meditation book that it hurts Him when I worry and lack faith in Him. So, whenever I catch myself anxious or stressed, I lovingly smile at Him and say, “God, I’m trusting you with that.”
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