It's interesting to me how God chooses to speak to me- I'm always expecting it to be so complex, so quiet... so HARD to figure out- and it always happens so fast, so simple, and almost way too easy to understand. Why am I so confused at how God would choose to speak to me, when He is the one who created me and knows me best, He knows what's gonna work, and He knows the right way to get my attention and make it stick the first time :) I'm so very thankful for a God who loves me that much- so much that He would choose to speak to all of us in which ever way reaches us best- that's amazing to me, and worthy of the biggest gratitude :)
Ok- now onto the big news He showed me about the freezer in my head.
Freezers are for storing food in- food we're gonna use for later use. We all store information and images and knowledge in our brains- for future use. We've been storing information since we were in the womb... all these things need a place to go in the freezer, so we can know where it is and access it easily.
In our lives, we also gather ice... frost... CRAP, things we shouldn't have had to have stored in this freezer- it sticks to the walls and ceilings of our minds, and makes it difficult to store anything of value or access it very easily without a challenge. Pretty soon, the ice and "crap" takes over, and you run out of room to keep the important information needed for survival. If I need to put in good information, I have to chisel out a place to put it- I can chisel out little chunks of bad at a time to make room for good. This feels a bit like progress- but the ice soon takes up whatever space it can- and I have to again chisel a place for anything good that I want to store in my head. I can continue this process for years- chiseling out little pieces little bit by little bit and never really gaining any real ground.
What God is showing me is sometimes we need a good defrosting- keep all the good stuff in ice chests for a little while and allow Him to warm up all the crap so it can melt away and be really truly gone for good. Kind of like a fresh start- otherwise the ice will keep gaining ground and it will end up being like treading water and never making it anywhere worthwhile.
Defrosting a freezer is not easy work- if it were, people would do it often, and without grumbling. Instead, we try to make it work how it is, and in turn, the freezer has to work harder and doesn't have as much room to store all our important stuff that brings us joy.
Simply put, God wants us to have joy, and not be bogged down with frost and crap and He wants us to be able to be used by Him, and He doesn't have much space if we keep allowing the crap build up to take all the room. I need to just let Him- Be still and KNOW HE IS GOD AND CAN DO IT... and stay still long enough to LET HIM GET IT DONE. :) Thank you Lord for caring enough to clean us out- and Thank you so much for teaching us creatures of no patience how to do it your way!!!
