Issues that create anxiety and tension are guaranteed. How do you typically handle a storm of those issues? My response has often been the playing the victim card or the blame game. I’m learning to have a different reaction, training myself to think of myself, but our Triune God. He is with you and me. I need to stop acting and thinking that He isn’t. He is the vine, and I’m connected to Him. Pruning, loss and injury are each painful, but I’m still connected. I need to stop acting like I’m disconnected.
“Where are you?” God asks, a kind move toward you amidst your self-protective, porcupine-like posture. God doesn’t want you to be alone in your suffering. Don’t let the serpent’s lies lull you into believing that someone has it worse, or that God has more important things to tend to than to meet you tenderly in your pain. Don’t let the serpent convince you to go it on your own, into a land where wandering and withering are inevitable. With a kind “Where are you?” God is addressing you. ” - Chuck DeGroat, Healing What’s Within
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