The hamster gets on the wheel
and starts to run
and run
and run
yet never getting anywhere
but staying in the same place
until he stops
and then does the same thing again.
It sounds like the definition of INSANITY~
"Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
To me it is like wishful thinking~
"If I only try this one thing one more time then it will work".
So then you try it again and still end up in the same place.
Then you look at the hamster wheel and realize that maybe the wheel is the problem.
So you decide to not take a ride,
even though it is the only way that you have always done things.
You are terrified
leaving the familiar to go to the unfamiliar
as you feel you are losing control.
Now what?
GOD gets your attention
because HE is the only way out.
HE says~
FOLLOW ME.
And you are afraid
because you don't know where HE is going to take you,
And then HE says,
TRUST ME.
But how can you TRUST someone you don't know.
And then HE says~
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland" (Isaiah 43:19)
And you so want to go with HIM,
yet you look at your hamster wheel
as it is all you know.
What do you do?
FOLLOW HIM?
TRUST HIM?
And then you look at the hamster wheel again,
remembering how hard you strived to get somewhere
yet always staying in the same place.
And then GOD breaks the silence~
"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your GOD, I will strengthen you,
I will help you, I will uphold you with MY righteous right hand" (Isaiah 41:10).
But you wonder why GOD would pay so much attention to you
when you never paid attention to HIM.
And then you see another one
standing next to HIM
who now speaks~
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest" (Matthew 11:28)
Oh how HE is speaking to your weary and burdened heart as you crave rest.
What do you have to lose
except the hamster wheel of insanity.
You close your eyes and take the first step.
You open up your eyes and you are blinded by a bright light
that illuminates everything around you.
You experience
THE PEACE that transcends all understanding
that you have never experienced before.
You can't explain it because it is an inner experience
that is happening to you that is supernatural.
And you want more.
So you take another step as you
FOLLOW & TRUST & COME
to the ONE
who always delivers on HIS PROMISES.
You forget about the hamster wheel
because now there is
"NO TURNING BACK"
(listen to the song below)
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