The Real Us.

MORNING THOUGHTS ☕️: I recently saw this quote:

“Sometimes, it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.” - Miles Davis

It made me think about an image I saw in my mind the other night before I fell asleep. I’ve had so many convos with the Lord about this big ole PAUSE in my life and I often ask “when can I get BACK to doing what I did and being who I was?” (Yeah…we’re not going that way:)

Instantly, I saw me THEN and me NOW and me AHEAD. I knew the “perceived pause” wasn’t just a stop until I could begin being who I used to be…it was a trajectory on the timeline to move me towards the WHOLE ME that He always intended.

I know this sounds like a no duh. Clearly, we are to move forward and not backwards.

BUT.

It was more than that. It was an ahhhhh and a deep knowing that he really, really, really uses it all for our good and that it’s ALL pointing us towards the fullness of our identity IN HIM.

I’m not articulating this very well. You know how it is when you get something in your spirit but you try to put it in words…

Anyway. He’s not withholding. He’s not pausing to punish. He’s not stopping you or me from operating as we always did to just have us “go back” and begin again in the same way.

He’s moving us forward to the REAL us, the whole us, the us who can be IN the world but not OF it.

It can take a long time to get the world OUT of you so you can go back IN whole and unaffected. But I’m here for it.

xox.eb