Sometimes Life is Like A Dryer Sheet

The other day I was taking my walk during my break. This is something I do every day when I am working, at least once a day I walk up to the top floor of the parking garage and back down. During this time, I usually spend that time talking with God. Its one of my prayer times I take in the busy life I seem to lead of work work work since my husband has been gone.

On this day, as I was walking and talking to the Lord I felt something odd, in my pants leg, it didn’t hurt was just irritating...bothering me, a nuisance. I was like grrrrrrr. I'd shake my leg a bit and I continued to walk a bit more and what ever it was, was still agitating me. A little further on I couldn’t take it any longer and I had to know and I was like what is with my britches Lord? And since no one was around that could see me I reach behind my knee from the inside of my britches and low and behold there was a dryer sheet clinging to my pants. I began to laugh at my stupidity and then the Lord spoke to my spirit.

This is our circumstance, we cling to it, I mean we REALLY c l i n g to it, we hold on to it, sometimes for dear life and as we walk it just keeps bothering us until it festers and then we cant take it any longer. When we can’t take it any longer we do one of two things. We either run to God or from God. While sometimes our circumstance does indeed hurt--an excruciating pain that we can no longer bare on our own, most circumstances are just plain irritating, causing us to be frustrated, and if we cling long enough we begin to feel hopelessness to the point we take our focus off God and back on our circumstance. Then we waller... I really hate the wallering stage, it’s not a pretty sight. But you know what, the enemy has you and I right where he wants you at that point.


I am learning that sly dog satan, just loves to watch us get all worked up over our circumstance. He then sits backs and laughs at us and says I knew she would do that...He also knows when we do, we are focused on the circumstance and not the Lord. Our enemy is crafty and knows how to use the little things to get our guard down. Our enemy has had ALOT of practice on knowing what buttons to push with us. Whether it be with our children, a co-worker, or our spouses, a dryer sheeting sticking to your pants leg, he KNOWS what makes us tick, what gets to us, what we will cling to. What are you clinging to today?

Are you clinging to what happened two years ago with your spouse? What they did what they said... what what what? You cant change what happened two years ago, you cant change what happened yesterday, but WE can change how WE in our own heart body and soul deal with every situation. Who is WE? Its you and Jesus! How can we expect our spouses to have a heart of flesh when we ourselves are not allowing the Lord to change our own hearts of stone to flesh?

Jesus was asked, how often should I forgive my brother? Seven times? And Jesus' answer was 7 times 70. Ok he didn’t mean 490 times and for us to keep count, no. I would lose count anyways and have to start over... Jesus was saying we must forgive over and over as it is pleasing to the Father. When we walk in forgiveness, we are walking in the will of God. We also have the burden of unforgiveness lifted from us. Do you realize just how heavy unforgiveness is? I get a mental image of Atlas (Greek mythology) with the weight of the world on his shoulders. And this is us when we cling to unforgiveness.

I have also realized unforgiveness is directly related to our circumstance. As long as we cling to unforgiveness, we will cling to our circumstance. And as long as we are clinging, it appears that this time of the storm drags on by, seems like forever, seems seems seems...hmmmmm seems like we are looking at things in the natural and not in the spiritual.

How are you looking at your circumstance? Are you seeing with spiritual eyes? Or are you looking with natural eyes? When I begin my cling thing and I still do it, I remind myself of the promises of God. And when I do go back to looking at circumstances, I have learned to look at them less, I no longer cling...c l i n g g g g , I am learning to just touch base with these circumstances. It’s almost like a reminder of whom my help comes from.

My best advice? Turn to God with all things. And I mean all things! He will listen, he will hear, He will fix it! It doesn’t matter how great or how small,,,TALK to Him, the one who loves you so completely. Focus Focus Focus on Him. Believe Him when he does speak to you, don’t let the enemy confuse you in to thinking did God really say that? Cause I guarantee you God has already spoken to your circumstance and your future! It’s a done deal! So tell me what have you got to cling to now? How about clinging to the Lord Jesus?
Aug 01, 2007

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