Meditation for 1/13/14

Seabrook Island; SC

“If you pray for direction, you will get direction.  But if you pray for clarity, you better put your helmet on.  The perspective you get may not be what you envisioned at all.”  -  Anon

“Faith without works is dead.”  -  Biblical

      Tick tock…tick tock.  The hours, days and years of our life slip by.  Time waits for no one.   And so many times in life we get stuck in ruts of the long term variety – circumstances we can’t seem to change and no idea how to handle.  It may be a living situation, a job, a marriage, a health situation, an addiction or any one of many other varieties.  We cannot “see the forest for the trees,” we cannot seem to extract ourselves, we have lost perspective and resigned ourselves to a pitiful state of resignation.  The difficulty the situation presents us in any one day or week does not seem to be enough discomfort to merit the risk involved in a major change.  And so we sit in the undesirable circumstance and time marches relentlessly on.

     So we can pray for clarity.  Clarity of perspective on our life.  Clarity of mind and the vision to be able to comprehend our circumstance.  If we think we have a clear perspective we wouldn’t think to pray for it.  But to stay where we are is insanity – we are continuing day after day to do the same things and expecting a different result.  And so we start praying for clarity – and we start getting it.  We can be certain that it will be very different than what we thought – because if we had the answers we wouldn’t be praying to start with. 

     So what do we do with it when we get it?  Usually we have been stuck because our subconscious mind would not allow us to see the truth because it is petrified with fear of the change that might be forced upon us.  And now that our fears are exposed we can either deny the whole thing and crawl back into the false security of known discomfort or we can pray again – this time for the strength to act in the face of our fears.  And we are going to need it – it is a crippling fear indeed that is so powerful it keeps us from seeing the obvious.

     So you think you have faith?  You think the faith without works means to do niceties for other people?  Nope.  This is where we realize the true meaning of faith without works is dead.  Here is where we have to act on the guidance given, trust that God will continue to give us direction AND that there is a plan for our future that we cannot see.  This is faith with works.  This is courage.  To break out of the shell of known discomfort and trust in the unknown future requires much fortitude.  But do it we must if we are to follow the path. So pull up your boot-straps and pray for some clarity today.  It is the first step in the solution you seek.

Today, may I know courage.

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All have a great Monday !!

David