Do you go through times when you feel totally unsettled? You don't fully know why..But, you keep moving into a deeper sense of unsettledness..You say to yourself..what is going on?..this has to go! Then you start doing "things" to either get your mind off the unsettledness..OR, you start asking yourself questions as to what could it be that has brought you to "The Unsettled Place." The risk here, by asking too many questions, is increased unsettledness!
Are you still with me? I know I am not the only one this happens to, so I am hopeful, by sharing, it might help others to not step into a place that God does not have for us!
I know that God is having me blog about this today because..all I have said so far describes what I have been experiencing...I began to feel the unsettledness last night and again this morning.
Ah, But God! He began to speak to me again, reminding me that I never have to "hang around in the unsettled place for any length of time." As I am writing this, I am reminded of His word in Isaiah that I talked about in an earlier blog:
"I (God) will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is stayed on Me." (Isaiah 26:3 paraphrased)
This is true..but additionally today, He has re-spoken a word to me that He gave me for direction an earlier time. I had called out to Him "to settle me down." There was a lot of chaos around me..What He led me to, in His word, is:
PSALM 91:1-4((nkjv)
"He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High, Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress; My God , in Him I will trust." Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler."
This is the place that He has for us...hiding under His shadow..dwelling in His presence..High above all of the "unsettledness, the chaos" of this life...The enemy of our soul tries to convince us that there is no place to go to remove ourselves from struggle, strife or even uncertainty..
"BUT GOD, HIMSELF, IS THE ANSWER TO OUR QUESTIONING..HE ALONE IS OUR REFUGE, OUR SHIELD..OUR DEFENSE..AND HE ALONE HOLDS THE TRUTH TO ALL OF OUR CIRCUMSTANCES."
He also encourages us to focus on certain things to help us keep our thinking aligned. He actually tells us to meditate upon them:
PHILIPPIANS 4:8-9
"Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-
meditate on these things."
"The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me,these do, and the God of peace will be with you."
There it is again.."the God of Peace will be with you."..I don't know about you..but I know that I need to spend time "honestly meditating" on the above..so much so that it becomes my way of reacting to chaos...to "unsettledness."
I can tell you that just talking about it and receiving His word afresh in to my mind..my spirit is strengthening to me and I pray that you have been strengthened in the "place that you are in."
"We all walk this road together..we are never alone because He is always with us...but how much better we are when we call out to each along the way."
His word declares: "For where two or three are gathered to gather in My name, there am I in the midst of them." (Matthew 18:20 American Standard)
Blessings in Jesus Name,
Drema
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