Creating Space

The other day I made a huge mistake of walking into my garage. Huge mistake! Can I tell you how messed up that place is? I couldn't find anything. Tools. Storage boxes. Electrical cords, paint brushes, picture frames. Nowhere. I knew the general area of the freezer...but getting to it was quite frustrating. Do you really want to stand in the way of me and my ice-cream? Okay, so that's a bit of an exageration...but you get the point. My spiritual life is like this in a way.

I'm the kind of guy that needs space to be cleared out before I can really sit down and concentrate. The down side of that spiritually is that I take control of life before I sit down and create space for God and I to dialogue. The up side is that when space is cleared out...i have some amazing time with God. My challenge? To create space for God even when the spiritual, physical, and emotional life is messed up. So that what I've been attempting to do over this past year.

You see, I totally believe that we can block God from working in our lives. If we truly are conduits through which God can work...and our own control issues block the flow...we don't limit God's power or vision...but we do block the flow through us. Will God accomplish his puposes? Yes. Will his plan to expose people to His amazing love. Yes. Will we be fully engaged in the Kingdom life. No way. You block the flow...and you lose out on what God is doing. Plain and simple. I need to create space for God to work.

Philippians 1:6 tells me that the work God began in my will be completed. Will I allow God to control what's happening? Will I allow Him to work what He wants in me...even though it goes against what I think might be the best option for me? True faith isn't faith until it's the only thing you're hanging onto sometime. Will we move forward being certain that He wants the best for us...even though we are uncertain of the path to that end? That's faith. That's creating space for God to lead the blind. Peace to my brotha's and sista's.