Bumps.....
The Lord just gave me a great illustration while I was sitting at my desk at work typing away and I knew I just had to share it! I love it when He speaks me at the most random moments, and I have learned to just stop and listen because there is always a lesson to be learned.
The word bump can mean many things. Today the Lord brought two to my mind. It can be a "bump" in the road, or a "bump" on the head .
I think of bumps in the road as a road block or a rough patch that you have to drive over or through. A bump on the head happens when you run into something sharp and unexpected or even when something sharp hits you on top of your head.
Either one of these instances can cause a lifting experience. A bump on the head rises as it swells, a bump in the road can cause your car to jump a little, or maybe even a lot depending on the size of the bump.
Either one of these instances can be likened to the Christian Life and our walk.
We need these bumps in order to get to the Most High.
In the Christian life we call them trials. Sometimes these trials take us on the bumpiest roads possible. Sometime we come out brusied and swollen, bumped and broken.... but in the end it's neccesary.
If we can just endure the swelling, or the momentary shift in elevation we will indeed learn that it's lifting us just a little higher, and most of all bringing us closer to the Almighty One who sits in the highest place..... on His throne in heaven.
I've been encouraged this morning to keep enduring these bumps....these trials... because they are only bringing me that much closer to My Lord, My Jesus.
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. Let all that you do be done with love. 1 Cor. 16:13-14
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