A Little Shake Up

There comes a time in all our lives where The Lord does a little shake up. You know those times when nothing but bad news and bad things shower you with their presence? It's really difficult to go through those moments and not feel sad, mad, depress or discouraged. Most times you just feel down right beat down. Here's a way to look at these moments and be thankful they have arrived.

If you are anything like me things start to happen in life in these small spurst. I tend to brush things off at first. Someone does something disrespectful and I brush it off the first time. People make mistakes. Then it happens again. I will mention it to give the person notice. Yet it happens a few times more and then my head explodes and I explode on the person that didn't get the clue.

Things like this happen on bigger scales in our lives. You have a issue with a person or group. It is a situation big enough to take notice of but in your mind not big enough to make a major change. A year goes by and you look back and remember the initial situation and think to yourself, "I should have nipped that in the bud right then and there. Those moments are the moments God is trying to tell us subtly to take action but we are not keen enough to catch the hint. So God shakes thing up and things get so out of control and out of hand that when you tell the tale people are shocked and surprised you made it out alive. Years after you survived you take note of your life as it is and you realize that entire shake up lead you to a better place.

The Lord has shaken my life up more times than I could count. I've lost loves to drugs and to death. I learned many great lessons from the experiences. It sucked losing them but ultimately I had to lose them to make room for my current love. He is amazing and well worth the wait.

I've lost many jobs through my years. I've just lost two in the past week. Now my business seems to suddenly be picking up. I know for a fact some of the things that have happened to me happened because I would not have made the decision and moves I needed to make to get forward down the path I was meant to go had I not been pushed in the right direction through the many shake ups in my life.

So the next time you have a week where you lose two jobs, find out you have to move, have a loved one in the hospital and get sick yourself, don't look at it and feel sorry for yourself. Say, "Thank you Lord." Let him know you hear him and make the decisions you are being urged to make. Know that every shake up is designed to push you forward to a better situation. They open the doors to your destiny. They make room for your best life ever. I promise you.......the shake up you are experiencing is only because you didn't catch the hints from the beginning and God is trying to stir you in another direction where everything will be better than what it was before he shook things up.