STUFF TO SAY💫

Hey, so, allow me to feign ignorance regarding the fact that it’s actually been ages since I wrote🫠🥺 but thats only because I come bearing heavy words that will call for an inner reflection on our part.


I’m currently reading a book (image below) that lightly explores a profound spiritual struggle. The protagonist,  (though I’ve yet to confirm this as I’m still early in my reading), grapples with a recurring challenge: the tendency to misplace God in her spiritual journey. I’m eager to finish the book and share my insights through a review. If this piques your interest, I warmly invite you to embark on this journey alongside me.


That narrative sparked a reflection; Within the course of our walk of faith, how often do we misplace God? I encourage you to join me in this contemplation, completing the statement: “I misplace God when…”


Personally, I misplace God on multiple occasions because without conscious awareness, I’ve developed a sense of entitlement to a simple, joyful life when reality and life has presented challenges I was ill-prepared for

It’s a sobering realization that I hadn’t fully grasped or sought to understand; the inevitability of difficult times in a believer’s life. Therefore without even knowing I developed a tendency I’m not proud of; WALKING AWAY’

I will readily often without remorse walk away! From people, from situations, from things that feel draining.

I am not proud of this, because instead of building a spirit of long suffering, I am infact doing the opposite.


In certain situations and contexts, walking away is infact the right way to handle things; for example when Paul left the synagogue in Ephesus after encountering strong opposition from the Jewish leaders who refused to believe. The difference between some of us and Paul is that he had to flee to either save his life, or to simply save time from people that wanted to argue toxically instead of debate to learn!


When confronted with intensely painful situations, we – I – tend to flee. Ironically, we run from God, who is the very remedy we need in our afflicted state. It’s as if we’re waving off the doctor who’s offering to administer the cure.


Consider the inspiring stories of Paul, Gideon, Joseph, and Daniel. Their narratives are filled with triumph, yet they also involve pain, shame, anger, and bitterness. The crucial difference is that they chose to run towards God amidst their struggles, ultimately living testimonies that impact our lives to this day.


Even Jesus while faced with all sorts of mockery, Pain, Disregard and feelings of Abandonment, still ran to God! Was one with God and still sought God out in the times of defeat, so who are we not to follow in His footsteps?


You and I are being called in the direction of holding God’s hand while still holding pain, hatred, shame, in our hands. Let’s see what God does with them. In doing so, we may find ourselves living out a powerful testimony, demonstrating God’s ability to change situations and His nature as a loving Father who desires to relieve us of the burdens we were never meant to carry alone.