Sometimes we need to learn to live in the small, confined place before the Lord can release us into His broad place...
“I called on the LORD in distress;
The LORD answered me and set me in a broad place.”
Psalm 118:5
Have you ever been in a situation that felt confining, hard, and difficult? Have you – like me – complained to the Lord about it, yet your prayers seem to go unanswered? This could be a relationship, a marriage, a workplace, home, school -- you name it situation.
If you are in currently in one of these ‘small’ places, can I encourage you to quit your complaining, griping, and placing blame elsewhere and instead ask the Lord what it is He is trying to work out of your character so that you may take on more of His? Escaping, quitting, and running away only delays the inevitable go-round of the same issue again, somewhere and sometime in your life.
Take it from me who had to learn this lesson in the small place.
When I began to believe and live what comes later in this same Psalm, “This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it,” no matter what my circumstances were, I found abundance in the small place – because I found HIM in the small place. And I usually wasn’t long after that my circumstances would change completely.
Yes, I can tell you story after story. Find joy in the narrow road and shortly you will be walking on the street named: His Broadway.