Move On

 

Move On

You might be wondering what I have been up to during the last month and a half.  Hello everyone! How have you all been doing?

My wife and I have made a huge move of over 1000 km south of where we were.  Over here it is not as cold as up North.

A lot of us like our comfort zone maybe a bit too much.  So much so that when its time to move we say: “No way! I like it here”.  We might like our comfort zone so much that we might miss entirely what God has in store for us. Our comfort zone could become our danger zone very quickly.

Well, all this to tell you our move was far from being easy.  We had to push through and when we had gone through one obstacle.  Boom! There came up another one unrelated.  That we are exhausted.  We are no longer spring chicken; my wife and I are in our 60s and we feel it.

Along with my mental illness, we had many challenges.

For my encouragement and yours perhaps! I have Psalms 42 and 43 to share and more precisely verse 5 and 11 in the first and verse 5 in the second. It’s a repeat in all these verses.

Why am I discouraged?

Why am I restless?

I should trust you, Lord

I will praise you again

Because you help me,

And you are my God.

 

And boy! Do we ever need to be reminded over and over?  These verses are so rich in theology.

Yes, why are we so easily discouraged?  We give up so easily that we must push.  Then the lie comes to us: “Well, you know you don’t want to push too hard; you might be going the wrong way!  Never mind, why would I go the wrong way if my desire is to obey the Lord? 

 

My encouragement to you is: “Don’t listen to these voices that hold you back in despair but MOVE ON and shine with courage until it is God who stops you.

More about these two Psalms in the next post.