Movement

I have had this overwhelming trend in my walk lately that has really placed a weight that I haven't been able to get off of me. Tonight, the Lord really released some truth into my heart that placed an understanding in me as to why I have been going whole days without feeling the presence of God. In Ecclesiastes, we read that in everything, there is a season, yet I would confer that the Lord never wants to put us in a season that does not include His presence. 

In Ephesians 4:30, Paul says, "Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption." This verse alone was the tool that God pulled out of the box to speak life into me tonight. I literally started looking back into the last couple weeks, and finding time after time that the Lord pressed into me to go a certain way or do a certain thing or stop doing a certain thing, and i simply ignored His voice. I think that this is where we begin to step outside of the Lord's presence and begin to get sucked into the temporal earthly junk that clogs up our ears from hearing Him. When we begin to ignore that beautiful voice inside of us crying out for obedience, it is there that the presence of God, stirring inside of us begins to evaporate. It's not that we lose the Spirit of God, but we simply cannot recognize it. 

Now, let us be honest, we all experience this, because we are all fallen human beings who desperately need God's grace to illuminate our wretchedness, and bring us back to our knees before the throne of grace, where God rests waiting for us like the patient Father that He is. I know the repercussions of this way too well, and also know the beautiful nature of God's heart to want us always to abide in Him, and to be made whole in His goodness. This is probably why it is so frustrating  when I found myself grasping for the presence of God like it is disappearing.. So, tonight I was again covered in the grace of God, soaking wet in the presence of a Holy, overwhelming God. And here, in this place, is where we begin to see the fullness of God pleasing to dwell in us.

I pray blessings over this week in Jesus name as we labor together in the Kingdom of Heaven, daily pleading for God to expose us to His grace in new ways as we continually become pushed more and more into the image of Christ.