Has your spiritual journey become jerky or suddenly halted? Do you feel like your daily routine has you stuck? You may be in a rut. Ruts can be avoided, but you have to keep watch for them.
For instance, consider dirt bike riding? Often dirt roads and trails are riddled with ruts cut into them by winter and spring rains. As you speed along you have to keep careful watch for ruts. I have seen them up to half a foot deep and about 4-5 inches wide. Imagine what would happen if you dropped your front wheel into the rut. The bike stops and you do not! More than just a few riders have taken a flying fall off their bikes when this happens. Ouch!
How do you navigate a rut when riding a dirt bike? If it is running down the middle of the road you ride to one side or the other. If it changes direction and goes diagonally across your path (as ruts are prone to do) then you turn your bike at a right angle to the rut and cross being careful not to turn the bike again until the real wheel has cleared it.
We tend to be creatures of circumstance; do you agree? The things that happen around us affect us. We work, earn wages, eat, sleep, participate in recreational activities, go to church every week and generally exist in response to all these regular activities. Does that remind you of something? It reminds me of a rut!
So, I ask you again; has your spiritual journey become jerky or suddenly halted? Have the storms of life created ruts in your trail with God? Have you lost that divine sense of what He created you to be and do? God remembers. He is just waiting for you to reach up to Him so He can lift you out of the rut and speed you on your way to fulfill all He created you to be and do. When He does this ask Him to show you where all the ruts are so you can avoid them in the future.
Could the answer be that simple? Try God and see!
“Do not earnestly remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:18-19 AMP)
