OMG. . .In So Many Ways

Deliverance

Deliverance is as much a transformation of the heart as it is a transference of the body

But be warned. In Scripture, and in life, the road to deliverance nearly always takes a detour. Rarely do the people of God reach any kind of promised land without a journey or two through the wilderness.

Inspired        Rachel Held Evans

Moses.  The Israelites.  The Prodigal Son.  Joseph and his amazing coat.  Hagar.  Mary Magdalene. Jesus.

Me?  You?

OMG. . . In So Many Ways. .  .Deliverance.

Not one BIG deliverance, it seems.  But many.  Over and over.  Wilderness leads to deliverance.

But oh my.  The moment my foot is on a wilderness path – deliver me, please.  Must I wait?  God’s timing can be a tad bit long.  Like Moses.  Forty years.  I don’t have forty years left!

As I recall, I have had many quick deliverances.  Deliverances that I did not see as deliverances.  Until now. 

Would I get the job?  The phone call?  A reconciliation?  An answer to discernment?  A health decision.

Yes.  I have named my wilderness experiences.  No, I have not named the way out as my deliverance.

OMG. . .In So Many Ways.  Story after story about God’s faithfulness on deliverance  Past and present.  Yet even though I witnessed my stories of deliverance, I didn’t name them as such. 

There have been many.  Big and small.  Stories of the way out.  The path to a new place.  Most were not huge “aha” moments.  And most were only noticed in retrospect.  But deliverance they were.  Out of a fog. A valley.  An uncomfortable situation.  An indecision.  Out of a particular wilderness.

Sounds kind of silly.  After these many years, to just realize God’s faithfulness.  In yet one more area of my life.  But there it is.

OMG. . .In So Many Ways. . .Deliverance, over and over and over again!