The Scattered Room 🏚️

Heey Sis,

How are you doing? It has been a minute.

If you are in the UK, I hope you are enjoying the weather this week. Spring has finally arrived.

This past year has been very different as I have become more intentional about my spiritual growth. God has been rearranging me spiritually, highlighting things that need to be worked on and healing parts of me that I thought I already dealt with. It has been a journey but I am glad I am on it.

I came across something I wrote a few years ago which I can relate to so much now.

There was a time when I was moving my room around and I took a break because my back started to hurt. I looked over and saw a very scattered room but I knew what it would look like once I finished. That’s when I saw the message in the mess.

Sometimes God needs to rearrange our lives so we can move to a new level or see things in a new dimension and expose the hidden areas of our lives. While moving around, I noticed dusty areas and dirt that needed to be cleaned up and if I hadn't moved things around I would never have known. When we first get saved, yes we have a new life in Christ but we have old habits, hurts, attitudes, and a past that we need to heal from. People think you suddenly become a wholesome person once you give your life to Christ and that’s far from the truth. Walking with Christ exposes you to constant pruning to get you to be the person He created you to be. This can feel uncomfortable but it is meant to challenge and transform us.

It takes a certain level of grace to deal with our hidden parts (trauma, disappointments, resentments, hurts, insecurities) because if you are not ready, to be honest with yourself, then the healing or transformation can be prolonged. This is why we need to keep working out our salvation and not just stay in the same place or position. Although uncomfortable we need to embrace pruning as it will help us grow in the Fruits of the Spirit and grow our faith.

God has the vision of who we are meant to be and what our lives are supposed to look like. We must challenge ourselves to give Him full access and control to get us to be all he has created us to be. This may cause some level of discomfort for some time, but in the end, it will be beautiful and more than worth it.

My room is now positioned differently and I love it. It has given me more space so that I can do more with it. God has a vision as I did with my room. If anyone walked into my room at that point they would have thought what is this girl doing? However, I knew what was happening and it needed to be messed up for it to be rearranged. You don’t have the full picture but trust that the One who gave you life knows what He is doing. Life isn’t perfect and it would be messy at times but you have to trust God even when things are not making sense. Trusting God means surrendering your will/control to Him and letting Him guide you on your path.

1 Peter 5:7 (AMP)

Casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully].

This quote summarises this perfectly

“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew those jobs needed doing, so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” ― C.S. Lewis

Since the scenery of the scattered room, my room has been completely repainted and redone. Even this week I replaced some furniture in my room. Change is constant in life and more so in God.

If you feel you are going through a pruning, ask yourself in which areas and why. Ask for the grace and patience to navigate. Always ask the Holy Spirit for help.

Let Us Pray….

Father I thank you for your daughter, thank you because you are a good father. Your love for her is so overwhelming. God I pray for the grace for her to keep on working out her salvation with you. As you are pruning her and developing her, she is becoming the woman you created her to be. I pray her trust in you grows like never before and her heart for you continunually be set ablaze. Continue to be her peace and her hope. In Jesus name (Amen)

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Have an amazing week.

Till next time

💜