The Phases of Becoming

Nothing is as it seems when we consider our family of origins. Some of us have a natural tendency to bend in one direction and others seem to have a supernatural inclination for the other direction. Which one is the right one can be a burdensome task to attempt yet most of us have no choice but to confront it. It confronts us and we are then required to respond. The choices of another places in the hot seat creating absence, neglect, or worse. And rather than become something we can not control, we choose what we can control.

And this journey seems to continually bring us to what we can either control or not control. We can either give in or give up. Fight or relinquish yet either choice we make, we must live with the outcomes. In our return to sermon delivery, I have found myself in quite a bit of a pinch. Words could not describe the experience yet it does not feel any less tumultuous than the days of confronting absence or peace; lost or found. Times in prayer can incessant or interlaced with the affairs of life. Study feverish or random as a squiggly line on an Etch-a-Sketch! Yet this is the becoming that I am, this is the becoming that we are.

While we may feel that we are becoming unraveled that would contradict the word of God. Isaiah 64:8 NLT, “And yet, O Lord, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand.” What dare we repeat, rehearse, and digest in our souls, the same verbage that will sustain us. No matter what we feel and can see, we are…”I am formed by your hand! I may not understand, perceive, or clearly see or hear what I want to hear, yet I grasp and arrest that what I see is formed by our hand. And in your hand, I stand. God, you give understanding, perception, vision, and hearing when I need it. So I accept that this is a moment to walk by faith and not by my senses. You’ve never dropped me before and you will not start now. (John 10:28)”

Being plucked out of darkness and planted in Christ, we have the power to become. And yes, we hit rough places along the journey, yet we are on the journey. That counts for something so count the testimonies, the miracles, the breakthroughs, and the highlights of hope and triumphs that God has wrought. Celebrate with their people of faith to be strengthened and lifted in spirit to continue on. Breathing means opportunity, seize this opportunity to press into your becoming that you may see God’s treasure within be revealed in your life.

Blessings, Pastor Ceci