Allow Blank Space

Seasons change, life overwhelms and then disappoints, and it can so often feel like a perpetual game of red light green light.  Lately I have been learning from the stop and go, run  and wait, speak and listen.I am learning to not sit through the whole red light while blankly staring at the green hoping for a change, for movement, for my time to come. Since when is life about me? When will it ever be about me? It is not, it will not.

I am reading Oswald Chambers, and felt it would bless us all today.

There are times when you cannot understand why you cannot do what you want to do. When God brings the blank space, see that you do not fill it in but wait. Never run before God's guidance (My Utmost for His Highest p, 4. )

How much of God's purposeful blank space do I fill?

Do I even allow blank space in my life?

Do I fill up my blank walls with my own art-so as to bring myself glory or allow room for him to perfect what He has put there for His glory?

Extremely often without even seeing or knowing the masterpiece that He is painting on my walls, I walk in with closed eyes and paint scribbles there to cover up the blanks, to erase my vulnerability and fill my time-I can feel my hand brushing His hand away as I do this, and sometimes I even mistake that for "a closeness" to Him, but it is worse than distance.

Prayer and Fasting: Ponder what you have put on your walls and what needs to come down. Allow the blood of Christ to wash all of it off and start new with you, under no time restraints or management on your part. Think of what you can cut out starting Sunday (the 23) so as to hear Him instead of others, instead of yourself.

If you missed my first post on the upcoming fast, you can read it here: Consider Change.

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