Beauty in Process

My sons and daughters, your world is changing. I delight in seeing how you are mirroring my creativity, coming up with new inventions and new ways to make your short time on the earth fruitful. But, don’t be like the world and believe that the purpose of innovation is to ‘short-circuit’ processes and make life easy.  

My Children, I designed for you to experience abundant life.  That means all of it – the joy, the sadness, the trials. There is beauty in process.  It’s in process that you experience growth, learn to overcome, and find that even in grief, I am there with you.  

So, will you commit and embrace the process, knowing I am in it with you? It will challenge you, stretch you, and grow you – but the result will be an increased capacity to experience all of my life, that inner life, where my sustaining power is found.  So don’t be in a hurry; put away some of your innovations and take time to encounter me as we walk together through life.

Activation: Take a Sabbath Rest, or make a choice to fast TV, your phone, or social media and instead pull up a chair and grab a coffee and sit with the Lord. Have a real talk, tell him the things buried deep that you haven’t even told your closest friend, or that you have been too busy (even intentionally) to sit and process with him. Choose to set aside some time to be fully present with Him. 

James 1:3 (AMP)

Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].

Romans 5:3-5 (PHILLIPS)

This doesn’t mean, of course, that we have only a hope of future joys—we can be full of joy here and now even in our trials and troubles. Taken in the right spirit these very things will give us patient endurance; this in turn will develop a mature character, and a character of this sort produces a steady hope, a hope that will never disappoint us. Already we have some experience of the love of God flooding through our hearts by the Holy Spirit given to us.