Youth - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 13:17 - 0 Comments

To stand.

Tonight at church I had an incredible encounter with myself. God broke me down so I could see a lot of things about who I am that I’ve been avoiding. I told God, “I feel so overwhelmed…” and He reminded me of an illustration I shared with the youth a few Sundays ago:

When I was about ten or eleven years old, we were moving from one house to another in a sort of forced move. I either didn’t use my pre-move time wisely or I didn’t have enough time to actually get packed up. As I looked around the room, I felt this extreme amount of hopelessness. My bed had been packed up, yet the entire tile floor was covered with piles of clothes, toys, and trash. I would go to pack up one pile and get distracted by another. I would start Continue…