Be “Grateful” in The Valley
In any spiritual journey in life, you always have to go through The Valley to get to the Mountain Top, or in my Littlefoot mindset, “The Great Valley”. I felt that in every spiritual season that I ever gone through the hardest pre-exams have always been in The Valley and the final test climbing the mountain to face the challenge. After attending First Wednesday night service last night, I’m learning why I really been failing these exams. I truly haven’t been grateful in this season in The Valley.
I’ve been frustrated with everything that has been hitting me. From all the complaining, stress, whining, job searching and I never really sat down said that I was grateful for The Valley and what it has taught me. What is The Valley that you talk of? Well in the Bible there is a reference of “Lily of the valley” 15 times. Lily of the valley has a reference to Jesus in a matter of purity, chastity, innocence, happiness, etc. Peace if you will but when I talk about “The Valley”, I mean in a boot camp but in a since of Spiritual Warfare training.
I can go deep OneSelfers so stay with me. What I mean is I’m fighting in these pre-exams just to be ready to face the real battle. For example, the movie Wonder Woman when the Amazonian warriors were training, that’s how I feel when I’m in this valley. I’m so tired fighting this battles and I’m just keep hitting a dead horse. I’m been in a rush and being very impatient to reach the next level in my life. I kind of understand all the deny letter I have been getting from grad schools to jobs for over two years.
Being grateful for where I’m at in this moment in time. Understanding that where I’m at is where God wants me to be. Grateful in the moment because where He will take me will all be worth it in the end. I have to Understand that this pain that I feel is really just temporary. Be grateful for the pain. It’s really temporary. This reminds me of the story in the bible about the garner and the vine. When its’ time to peel back all the dead things that is hanging off of you it hurts when it does come off. Honestly that’s how I feel with these experiences that I have face. I’m peeling back hurt, pain, anger, in different areas of my life.
I need to really sit down and be grateful that God want to do so to groom me when the next exam is upon me.
