Do you have anxiety?
Do you feel like you’re drowning?
(In anything- bad or good??)
This is for you.
Water and air.
It’s what he’s speaking to me so persistently about lately.
We are in this world, Christian friend.
But we are not OF this world.
It would be like us trying to live under the ocean and breathe water instead of air.
Ever catch yourself accidentally holding your breath? Not breathing deeply and relaxed?
When I’m stressed out I notice I do this often.
And he showed me why!
Even my BODY knows I’m surrounding myself with water when I was designed to be in open air!
So when I go into stressed-out, busy, auto-pilot mode, my body naturally holds its breath because it doesn’t WANT to breathe all that in.
I might enjoy swimming sometimes…exploring the underwater world. It can be beautiful!
But I have to come up for air often.
Or I have to take an oxygen tank with me.
That’s how life is.
We might enjoy #allthethings we are doing.
We might LOVE the brand of busy we created around us.
Or we may not.
We may feel we have to.
And maybe we are in a situation where that is true.
But it doesn’t change the fact that busy depletes us.
If you are a born-again believer, you no longer can breathe in water. You are no longer OF this world, even though you’re still in it.
You NEED God to feel like you’re able to breathe.
And being in the world depletes our oxygen supply.
That leaves me with 2 options if I don’t want to feel like I’m drowning constantly:
1️⃣Get out of the world often through fasting. Taking frequent social media breaks. And when I go back in, holding my breath while I’m under water. Not trying to breathe in the affirmation of people or the toxic fumes of envy or pride, failure or success in the world’s eyes.
2️⃣Stay connected to God, my oxygen tank, ALWAYS, in prayer. So I can do the work he purposed for me to do while only breathing HIM and his affirmation in.
When you know this, then even feeling like we are drowning can be a good thing. Because it reminds us to pause in our pursuits, and b.r.e.a.t.h.e. HIM in!
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