Who or WHAT in your life is binding you to your past and preventing you from moving ahead? Those circumstances, friends, failures, voices of shame or memories that we are so bound to as human beings. That's "natural" and real stuff friends. But God wants us to live in the Dimension of a Spiritual life my friends. And that's super-natural. Divine Living! When we turn, when we leave our past behind, (no you don't just ignore it!) It's a daily choice to not dig in the pile of pain, and often-immature places of not knowing how to handle certain situations. 
If there is one thing I have a bit of solid ground knowing about, it's this. The brightest and most life changing insights have often come during my darkest and hardest of days. How about you? I have found this to be true in my life and have also seen it happen in the lives of others. The bright "light bulb moments" that help us navigate those very hard days (and yes some hard weeks, months, years) occur when we humbly listen to God in quiet trust. Those two words, "Humbly and Quiet," they are real words, not metaphors or gooey spiritual blips! 
Save me, O God! The water is up to my neck; I am sinking in deep mud, and there is no solid ground; I am out in deep water, And the waves are about to drown me. I am worn out from calling for help, and my throat is aching. I have strained my eyes, looking for your help. Psalm 69:1-3 There are so many things going on in the hearts of God's people. Many believers have gone through pain and devastation because of betrayal and disappointment in those with whom they have at one time "walked with" in the Lord.
"The LORD is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet." Nahum 1:3 We are in high-pressured days that seem as if everything around us is in a great whirlwind. The noise coming from the media, the weather patterns, the sounds of war, the sounds of people crying out for "justice" and the sounds of people crying out because they feel like there's been too much "injustice."
In one of His most confrontational statements Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire on the earth." There are times in the Scripture in which fire is a symbol of judgment but in the great majority of references fire is used to point out God's divine presence. His words make it clear that the meaning behind His words, "I have come to bring fire" refers to something more than a cozy flame to cuddle up to! In this unique statement from Jesus the fire He is speaking of is not literally fire as in flames but a spiritual representation.
My heart aches and yes, even trembles a bit at the broad measure of deception that has had a huge increase in these difficult days. Spirits that imitate the voice of our Savior are cloaking themselves as Angels of light and also come masquerading as the Voice of the Holy Spirit in order to distract and lure believers away, slowly from sound convictions, godly warnings, and above all, THE still small Voice. The Bible tells us that deception; doctrines of demons, and false prophets will increase.
We think that we are so knowledgeable about our own needs and ourselves! But, more often than not, we are just opinionated and headstrong people! We refuse instructions from anyone who could tell us about the deeper things of the spirit, because "We know," or "Don't want to know!" How DARE you address this Mrs. Lindow!!!  Hmmmm!  I think I will continue!! **smile** We stumble along without anyone's help, and all the while we are overlooking that gnawing, unsettled sense inside of us, though if we paid attention to this we would see our true inner condition. It is in this way that we acclimate our souls to straggle along in a dark spiritual wilderness, and how we do ourselves so much harm.
God is crying out, "I am for you!  I am not against you! I am with you!  I am not far away from you!  I am more real, more alive, and more at work in this world, than you can sometimes believe!" "I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth.  Can't you see and discern it, perceive it?  I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." Isaiah 43:19 We all know and can relate to a bible story or parable that begins with a voice of mercy and compassion crying out in the wilderness in those strange and desert-like, dangerous places where we least expect it but most need it.
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