Maybe I should have stayed blinded

Now that I can see …I can see my true friends

When God answers your prayers and things have changed and so are you…..people began dislike you

People who used to tell you yes….now tell me know

Maybe just maybe I should have stayed blind

Maybe I should have stayed broke

Maybe I should have not went to school

After being blessed we began to walk into places where we have never walked before…

People who are walking with you aren’t ready to walk with you

Your blessings are hard on your friends

Some cases it was the friends that you needed but now since you are blessed….
They start to need you.

Sometimes God will use you to approach and bless people…..who don’t deserve you but they deserve Him…

What if God put your blessings in someone’s hands that can’t stand you.?

God blesses them…for them to bless you

Maybe I should have stayed blind…

John 9:3- 6

Sometimes the preacher goes through a silent spell, when s/he has to wait for the voice of the Lord.  Today, my mind is reflecting on the journey of Elijah after gaining a great victory on Mt. Carmel against King Ahab and his 450 prophets of Baal.  While in the midst of a great depression, with Jezebel threatening to kill him within 24 hours, and feeling as if he was the only one, God ushered him to a cave where he waited to hear from God.

He experienced a windstorm, an earthquake, and a fire but yet did not hear the Lord in the midst of these.  I am learning that we sometimes go through situations where we cannot clearly hear God speaking so that we learn to pay attention to things we ordinarily would ignore or take for granted.  When Elijah heard God, he heard him in a soft whisper, not in the midst of the chaos he experienced.

Sometimes we go through periods of depression, distortion, and disappointment we must learn to listen for the whisper.  When we feel as though we are all alone and no one can relate to what we are feeling and thinking, we can find encouragement in the small whisper that reminds us that God will never leave us nor will He forsake us.  It is in these moments that we find strength to keep going when chaos has ripped apart our sanity because of the God we serve.  I wasn’t there with Elijah, but I can imagine when he heard this whisper he thought about how God fed him by the brook through a raven and gave him resources with a poor widow during a season of famine.