The Choice To Stop Is Not Ours

     Being carried by God is not a car ride.   When carried by our Heavenly Father, we can’t set the speed, chart the route, detour around construction, put the visor down to see more clearly, switch on the high beams to eliminate darkness, decide we need to drive into a gas station to be pumped with petro, or decide to stop and declare the journey is completed.

     Switch gears with me.   Together, let’s reflect on being carried by God.

     I, as a human being, thought, foolishly, that it is my choice to conclude I am exhausted, defeated and can’t go another step.   This week, when finding myself at this point, amidst my screaming sighs, I heard God’s soft whisper: if “I” am carrying you, as you’ve pleaded Me to do and I have complied, you can’t decide to stop.   That’s My decision, not yours.   For you to stop on your own, you would have to be dropped out of My hands.   Not happening.   My hands do not give way nor be halted by any, and all, worldly challenges, failures or storms.   My hands get over, under, around and through whatever happens; and, if you trust the cradle of my palms, so will you.

Over, under, around and through but never stopped – that is our God’s promise to me and each and every one of you.   Thus, next time you and I feel we can go no further and choose defeated and stopped as our only resort, let’s remember and holdfast to this basic equation.   If God is carrying us = we can’t be the one who chooses to stop our journey.   Pondering this Divine proclamation will likely result in possessing the absolute answer to many, if not all, of our abstract fears and defeats.