So there's this pull, at first we don't even realize what's happening. We may push it aside; we may even wrongfully label it as 'feeling down'. Silly rabbit (a little voice whispers you're not down, Terese, in fact you are being lifted). Ha, I push that aside too. But the more we ignore it, the more it manifests itself in other ways, finding other means of pulling you in.
Sometimes the only way God will get to you, your core, that heart, that soul is by stripping away some things. Just to be alone with you. You lose interest in social media or other sources of non-soul-quenching things. Sometimes He may even have to suppress some of your desires and passions. And it's not like a loss of passion or so (note carefully that I am not encouraging anyone to not have passions nor dreams). He knows you, His child, uniquely and so He knows just how to get your attention; just what to pull you away from. Sometimes He may fill you with burdens overflowing, and you may have to run with it...alone. You seek for others to join you; sometimes they fail to match the zeal and passion you have been birthed with. You are forced to travel that path alone. Not a problem, God really desires to commune with you. He lifts your thinking and viewpoints. You are filled with such peace and high spiritual expectancy. Confusing right.so many things happening at once. It’s just that some greater power is commanding your time, your interests. This rush, it’s inexplicable. It’s not a feeling, for feelings are temporal, it’s deeper than that, it’s more like a calling unto the soul.
All this just so He may become your focal point.
Yes, He wants to be the center.
I'm a lover of Interior Design, and one of the key principles of design is to create one or more focal points in a designed room or space. A focal point draws attention and encourages the viewer to look further. Jesus wants to become our focal point; He wants to draw our attention, and drive your innate thirst to seek Him further. He wants to take you to another place in Him.
Sometimes He just wants to reorder the elements of your design. Perhaps to shift your priorities until it aligns with His great plan? To re-instate himself as your focal point, and shift other things in their due order, behind Him and your personal relationship with Him? The possibilities are endless. Whatever it is, uniquely for you, God is pulling you. And He is calling you deeper.
Alone, yet not on your own. God is with you. "There's a lonely place where God makes men". This time He’s calling your soul to a deeper place, to a higher ground. Ignite your prayer warriors, partners and friends to intercede on your behalf.
That place…spiritually alone with God, being moulded/matured by Him. He wants to continue to work on your clay.
Question is: Are we stunting our own growth if we fail to accept that next level in Him? Wise Jamaican elders always say "If u waan good, u nose afi run". God is calling you deeper, will you accept?
[Check out these two songs: Marvin Sapp - Deeper and Micah Stampley - Another Place]
~Special thanks to a great friend, mentor, and respected Minister of God's word, Tyrone Reid, for editing this post.~
