The holidays have always come with so much hustle and bustle. I think that's why people felt so off this year. With a full blown pandemic currently circulating the globe and people getting sick and dying left and right, how could it not feel off? Mental health cases are rising, our lives are changing daily as we're being told what we can and cannot do and when you go to the store, you can't even see anyone's face to know how they're really feeling.
What kind of complicated life are we living?
The last few days I've been resting, which is something I'm not really that good at doing, but in that rest I've taken the time to reflect on this complicated life. All of the sudden, this morning, I felt a nudging in my spirit telling me to "get back to the basics."
Get back to the basics?
I mean, what are the basics anyway?
I decided to spend some time thinking more on what the basics are. As God started to challenge my soul, I quickly realized that I am responsible for overcomplicating my life. No pandemic is responsible for that. My cancer is not responsible. My failing marriage is not responsible.
I AM RESPONSIBLE. I have failed to keep things from getting messy, because well, emotions can make things messy. I have failed in moving forward in who God created me to be because I've been dwelling on the past. I have failed to recognize that there is hope unseen.
Hope unseen...what a concept. A concept that comes from the One I claim to place all of my faith and trust in. But have I?
Getting back to the basics, is planting your feet so firmly on the steady foundation that God has given us. Getting back to the basics is having the opportunity made available to us to remain still even when the seas are raging. When times are hard, they seem easier when we are firmly growing on that foundation. When the winds try to knock us down, He will hold us up. Why have I lost sight of getting back to the basics of who God created me to be and the life He created me to live?
Why have you?
Why have any of us lost sight of that?
I'm reminded of a verse from Psalms 104:5. It says, "He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved."
Read that again, it can NEVER be moved.
While we're so worried about the problems of this world, God is reminding us, HE set the earth on its foundations. We need to get back to the basics of building a life that is set on the foundation of Him. He created us with a purpose and a plan to not harm us or forsake us. It's time to rise up, quit complicating things and remember who set the foundation in the first place.
If we can get back to that, back to the basics of our existence, life may become a little easier after all.
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