Step by step

Have you ever felt like you've been wondering around without direction?
In a beautiful pasture, but you've been looking for something better?
If that's you this easter, when things just don't let up, perhaps you've reached the end of your rope, when you're looking at your diary or callander and you have just a busy schedule, you have no desire to do anything.
If that's you today, and everyone is telling you to take it easy, but you have no idea what that means.
Come and sit down and just have a break for 5 minutes.
The truth is, no one knows you better than those around you, or yourself, and God.
You see the reason why sometimes we feel so far away from God is because we don't take time just to have a chat, you'd be suprised on how many people feel so far away from God because well they are just to busy, it seems like everyone is mapping out their lives for them, because you don't know yourself.
Nothing is beyond you that you can't face through alone, perhaps it's time to go back and see what life is all about.
And perhaps when you walk back to the past, and thing that have you've gone through you can realize that you've been strong all your life.
God is there and he sees it.
He sees what you've done, but he's not there to rap you over your hands for the things you've done.
Everyone slips up and God is always, knows that.
But that doesn't mean you have the right to do what you want to do, because sometimes it's hard, but God gives you opportunities to be strong, and when you're strong for yourself you're strong for others.
We all come to a point of surrender, and we all need to come into that place, and that place is never easy if you've been strong all your life.
You see, when we get tired, we get mentally tired as well, and that is when we just don't care about much anymore.
And I have been there,  sometimes you want to just give up, when there's all the encouragement to hang in there.
It took me a few years to actually seeing what it was, I was secretly depressed as a teen ager,  I was confident of God's love and grace, but I would think that would for be for others, but as a friend who I spoke to last week, we long for relationships, and we want to trust people, and when tat trust is broken, we break the trust with God.
Parents need to trust their children, so instead of being talked to like a little girl, we have to encourage them with trust.
Trust is such a misleading thing these days, it's hard to do the work sometimes if we don't feel the trust it sometimes even harder to do the work, because we get into the mentality of proving, and we're not bread dough ready to prove just to get it right, so we come out of the oven puffy and nice.
Infact Jesus said to get rid of the yeast in our lives.
He meant pride, and everything that isn't pure.
And if you're battling with Purity, and wanting to become everyones friend in the process, we learn easily that we won't become everyones friend.
Jesus wasn't everyone's friend, he was looking at the bigger picture, he was disliked, he had is moments, he wasn't this sweet and mild, person.
He struggled with things that well held him down, we sort of think that because he was super natural, that he wasn't human, that well he didn't see what it was like.
We get it from the pulpit, and some times it's easy to go into preacher mode, but we don't need that, in the mist of pain.
You see the more we see people for who there are, the more we care, not scare them.
We aren't there to scare people, and to be afraid, even though sometimes it might be that people are scary.
Innosence is a gift, and when we aren't strong, we know that God is there.
We're not made to be size zeros or photoshopped.
God leads us step by step, and if you need to go back to church, then go, go back to where you left off, because he is waiting.