Get your head in the game.
What do you think of when you hear that statement? It usually means to get focused on what you should be doing. This is something that I have had to tell myself often recently. I have gone thru a season of feeling overwhelmed and a time of well,…I am not sure apathy is quite the word but more like I was pushing against a brick wall and not seeing any progress. The wall was not moving. I was not even excited by the coming New Year; I thought it is just another day. Then something happened. I was exposed! I thought I had been covering pretty well this dark cloud hanging over me. After all, I had continued to attend church, and was still active in ministry; I was praising, praying and pressing. But, right in the middle of Praise Team practice for the New Year’s service (even though it is “practice” it is still a time of real praise and worship)as I pressed and pressed and determined that there would be change in my life and the this cloud would lift one of my Associate Pastor’s called me out! Yes she did, right there in front of everyone she said something to the effect she that my praise is connected to hers and she knew that I was struggling but that she appreciated my pressing in until I reached that place of worship that I needed. Then later she told me that I was not alone in what I had been experiencing and still later in the service she put her arms around me and prayed earnestly for me to see things with a new perspective. That is when I realized I had actually been undergoing change. Change is a process, and a major shift it the process took place as I received what she prayed and prophesied over me. My head got in the game as my prospective changed and I realized what I had been experiencing was actually the grieving process for the things I was leaving behind as I continue to change and grow. Just as grieving is a part of the natural dying process it is also a part of the spiritual growing process. When we begin to die to ourselves and live for Christ, there are things we will need to give up and will miss. But, by seeing things from God’s perspective and allowing the grieving process to take place we will continue to move forward.
Side note: I have noticed, that my spiritual muscles sure have grown since I have been pushing against that wall.
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