I blogged a long time ago about being in a crevice and getting a hand up.
I have found myself at the bottom of a crevice. I had refused the hand up and decided to camp out a while instead. I would not advise it. It is not a great place to stay. It gets cold and lonely down there and it is dark. You can grow very cold stubbornly sitting there. I had been residing down there with Bitterness as my companion longer than I want to admit.
God’s grace and long-suffering is amazing to me. I had been told I had gotten bitter. I shrugged it off. I have found that when God is really trying to get my attention He often uses several unrelated avenues to bring the gentle correcting. I am thankful for his faithfulness, that he does not walk away from us shaking his head in dismay. He stays with us and keeps working on us. I am thankful for the avenues that he used to get my attention. It had been a long time since I was warned that I had gotten bitter and so I asked God if I really had become bitter. YES. Point blank. All the signs were pointing to related things: Bitterness escorted by an Unrepentant pride-driven attitude and her companion Unforgiveness. (Yup, that was me ranting on someone else recently about being unforgiving… realizing I was … is very humbling.)
I have taken the hand up this time and am slowly finding the footholds in the Rock to cling to as God guides me out of this crevice I was choosing to sulk in. I am seeking as David did for the Lord to restore unto me the JOY of my salvation in Christ.
and renew a right spirit within me.
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
and uphold me with thy free spirit.”
