Sometimes, the hardest thing to endure is process. Many of us have had to endure the process of letting go or saying goodbye. Others are enduring the process of deliverance. We’re waiting for God to deliver to us what we’ve been praying or toiling for. Or we’re waiting on God to deliver us from undesirable circumstances. Enduring in the waiting room of process is where temptation meets testing. Process is where the enemy tempts us. And it’s the place where God tests us. Process is the place where we’re tempted to abandon God. It’s also the place where we’re afforded opportunity to trust God. Process is never for God. It’s always for us. God doesn’t need process to do what He will to do. He subjects Himself to process for our benefit. He doesn’t need time to figure anything out. Neither does He need time to work anything out in our lives. Process is an accommodation for the limitations of our human experience and existence. He allows process for us to accomplish what we need to do, to acquire what we need to acquire and to develop into who we need to be. During process, God prepares us to receive. But He also prepares us to lose and let go. The hard part about process isn’t necessarily the fact that we have to wait. The hard part about process is waiting the right way. We can’t rush the clock. Neither can we slow it down. In the meantime, during the process, we will find ourselves in the middle of a faith fight–a constant tug-o-war between hope and hopelessness; between strength and weakness; between pushing forward and giving up; between trusting an invisible God or trusting what you can see; between believing God’s Truth or believing Satan’s lie; between giving it to God and taking things into your own hands; between what brings God glory and what brings you glory. Oftentimes, process is uncomfortable and painful because it requires us to operate from a place that has to trust what we’re not able to trace. But we walk by faith and not by sight. But even this is a process of intentional development. The process of bearing a cross offers no relief. It’s purposed by God to bring you from a place of suffering to a place of glory. And at the same time, the enemy will try to bring you from a place of suffering to a place of sin and separation. The process, also known as the journey, is hard. But it’s always worth it. It’s necessary for us to reach our destinations.
*Tressa Jo
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