...while reading "Get Out of That Pit!" by Beth Moore.
The Bible is our ultimate authority in life. I would never challenge that fact. We should read it more than any other book and it is a huge way we know God. But I think it is helpful sometimes to listen in on someone else's thoughts and encouragement when they share what they have learned, especially if it's Biblically solid.
Around one o'clock in the morning a few days ago, I finished the last chapter with tears in my eyes. God has saved us for freedom, and according to Him it's possible, even expected. Freedom from chronic procrastination? Apparently so. Freedom from consistent fear of the future? I believe that is God's intention. Of course I'll always sin, but there is a difference. There is sinning and moving on, and then there's walking in darkness stuck in the same old place.
But it takes some effort, which is why I often only get as far as good intentions. Because I want God to change me without any waiting and learning, without having to submit my will. I want instant results. But the reality is that I have to be involved in the process, to seek God, to agree with Him that I cannot stay where I am.
"While you wait for God to work and to manifest your sure deliverance, you wrap yourself around Him as tightly as you possibly can...Bind yourself to Him with everything you've got so that you will ultimately - inevitably - go anywhere He goes...God does not make His home in a pit. Bound to [Him], neither will you." (Moore)
"I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand." Psalm 40:1-2
"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery." Galatians 5:1
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