The lyrics to an old song kept running in my mind, so I looked it up and found it kind of fit my life! Yes I’m stuck in the middle with you, And I’m wondering what it is I should do, It’s so hard to keep this smile from my face, Losing control, yeah, I’m all over the place, Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Joel 3: 14-17 “Mass confusion, mob uproar—in Decision Valley! God’s Judgment Day has arrived in Decision Valley.” The sky turns black, sun and moon go dark, and stars burn out. God roars from Zion, shouts from Jerusalem. Earth and sky quake in terror. But God is a safe hiding place, a granite safe house for the (God’s children) children of Israel. Then you’ll know for sure that I’m your God. That verse shows us that no matter what our circumstances are, God has us in His hand! He has the whole world in His hand! Please don’t come back with “if God was so good what about all the wars and starving children). There have been so many tragedies with the floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, so many dead and sometimes it seems that the ones who died were the blessed ones, not to have to try to survive one more day under such terrible conditions. So much controversy from our local communities to the world-wide stage and it affects us, every one.
1 Kings 18:21 Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word. Seems the people way back then were trying to decide if God was God, and still today. When I find myself in the valley of decision at times, I pray the prayer David prayed, Psalm 61:2 God, listen to me shout, bend an ear to my prayer. When I’m far from anywhere, down to my last gasp, I call out,” Guide me up High Rock Mountain!”
Psalm 34:6 When I was desperate, I called out, and GOD got me out of a tight spot. Has He gotten you out of any tight spots lately? What’s got you stuck in the middle?
I can’t decide when to do the repairs that need to be done on my house, I have to decide certain things with my finances, or whether I would ever commit to marry again, but one thing I don’t have to decide on is my love for God. I also know “the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want, He makes me to lie down in green pastures and leads me beside clear water, He restores my soul, He leads me in paths of righteousness, even when I walk in death valley I am not afraid!” Ps. 23 I also know this, God doesn’t like for you to be stuck in the middle, or indecisive! James 1:6-8 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. In other words, a person that is “stuck in the middle”.
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