STICKER BUSH

It is in the times of darkness, when the feelings come flooding back in.  The look of yes you are stupid, S-T-U-P-I-D.  You don’t do anything right.   I get thrown into the sticker bush, the problem is, unlike some people, I don’t come running out unharmed.  I come out wounded and scarred.  As I sit in the dark looking out the window, tears form as I stare.  Where do I go what do I do?  How can I keep getting thrown into the stickers over and over and then come crawling out picking the thorns that have been left in my flesh? 

Have you been stuck by thorns?  Have the stickers pierced your skin and left you hurting and wounded? 

The people felt as if they were trapped.  They couldn’t see the way out of the thorny bushes.  The army was coming towards them and they were discouraged. Moses encouraged them to watch the wonderful way God would rescue them.  He said, “The Lord will fight for you, and you need only to be still,” Exodus 14:14 NIV.  It was then that the waters parted and they ran out of the briers unharmed.

My phone beeped.  I picked it up to see a text from a dear friend.  It read, “I just read your website, the wonderful inspiring new and or old branching out of you.  You are truly blessed with a beautiful gift- thank you for sharing.” 

God had sent me my Moses.  She had parted the waters and sent me running out of the sticker bushes. My encourager had arrived and rescued me from the darkness. 

Let the Lord make a way and remove you from your sticker bushes.  He will send you your Moses to part the branches, so you will escape without any thorns. 

All you need is to be still and know that He is Lord. Psalm 46:10