Stuck
I was listening to the news today when I heard a story that made me laugh as a person and terrified me as a parent. A child in Pennsylvania got her head stuck in a cake pan. Poor little girl got stuck. I can’t imagine the worry on the parent’s part as well…or the trust that had to be put in the firefighters as they cut the cake pan off of their child.
We hate being stuck. Stuck in a rut, stuck in a bad relationship, stuck in a dead-end job, stuck playing second fiddle, stuck in the middle, stuck in line, there is no form of stuck that we are content in.
What are you stuck in?
What are you stuck on?
If you’re feeling stuck, I want to reflect for a moment on Isaiah 43. These are the words that God spoke to people who were “stuck” in exile. Their past actions caused their present condition. God tells them to look forward, not backwards. Let’s take a look starting at verse 18 and 19:
“Remember not the former things,
nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.”
You may feel stuck, but God is not. God has a plan, and God’s plan cannot fail.
If you are stuck in a rut, walk with God
If you are stuck in a bad relationship, lean on the one who sacrificed His Son to restore your relationship with Him.
If you are stuck in a dead end job, remember He is the Lord of life, and will provide.
If you are stuck playing second fiddle, remember we love because He first loved us.
If you are stuck in the middle, remember He is the narrow way.
If you are stuck in line, remember it’s not out of line to ask God what the plan is. All the prophets did. But after you ask…trust…and then move in His promises
After all…
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.
- Philippians 3:13
And that is a verse worth getting stuck on.
See you Sunday,
Pastor Dan