Plateau Days

I write a lot of blogs that are relevant to what I am going through at the time, or that are lessons that I have learned along the way.

It is funny though because sometimes I go through similar situations and I have forgotten the lesson I learned, or what I learned about God during the process.

Life is chock full of ups and downs, of laughter, tears, joys and struggles. We can see God through all of them if we choose too. But we can also lose sight of the fact that God is in everything. That he is always there with us, and that he knows that things that happen to us before they come about.

Lately, I’ve often lost sight of that fact. That God is in all of it. That he is in the happy times that I am ever grateful for, he is in the valley when I feel like I could never climb the next hill without his own, and he is in the plateaued parts of life as well – the part that I struggle the most to remember who God is.

When things are neither this nor that, I seem to feel more distant from God. When I feel a lack of direction and passion for anything, I feel far away. I mean, shouldn’t God be placing those desires on my heart? Shouldn’t he be directing me to what’s next?

I think that he certainly does do those things when he’s ready for them, but I feel that there are times when God is silent, not because he doesn’t care, but because he is calling us to quietly rest in him and bask in his glory during these “plateau” times.

This is most difficult for me as someone who loves to be doing something, or serving people, and loves a challenge whether it be for work or for play. To put it very frankly, I am bad at resting.

When I don’t feel a direction or a movement from God, I feel that something is wrong and that there is just nothing next for me. I’m stubborn (as most of you know). I don’t want to just stay still and listen and wait and bask. I am no good at basking.

Yet, this is God’s will for me. To bask in his goodness and mercy. To spend time with him and to just do every simple thing with him. Do I always do this? No. But I wish that I did. And I strive to do so.

God is calling you in each and every moment- the mountain tops, the valleys, and the plateaus – to rest in him and grow closer and closer to him and in deeper understanding of who he is!