Still Feeling Stuck
Pastor Calvin Cook
Scripture focus: Acts 2:3 & 4 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance (ESV)
A couple of thoughts from recent days, after hearing some very powerful words from some very gifted people of God. Whether these words have come through preaching, a personal interaction, or something read in scripture or heard in prayer.
We are all searching for something more. While we are at the height of a great feeling, we often and quickly fall back into a place, where depression, complexity of life, and doubt creep back in. We forget the way that has been to bring us to the place we desire to be.
We prayed and worshipped. We have been in the living presence of God and experienced God moving. We felt the fire fall. Maybe even experiencing the ability to do something through a gift of the Holy Spirit that we have never done before. Yet it seems as if our calling has become unclear and question if we are moving in the right direction, and the feeling of being stuck has once again returned.
Wasn’t Pentecost supposed to cause a fire that could never be extinguished. Suppose to change everything? Well, the truth is it did! The problem is that we are just temporary minded people. We live and strive in temporary. Nothing about a relationship with God can be temporary, for God is eternal.
If you are in a season where once again, after the events you have personally experienced you are still feeling stuck, you are not alone. The disciples experienced the mighty wind, the tongues of fire, and the outpouring of the Spirit. Yet in minutes, days, weeks, months following, they were still facing opposition, still experiencing doubt from the very witnesses who had just seen the miracles that had taken place. They were still misunderstood, even by some close to them, which brought about a bit of uncertainty. Just because Pentecost happened didn’t mean everything became easy. There were still obstacles.
God’s spirit didn’t come to fix every problem with a swoosh of the Spirit. Be clear, it came to empower the people of God who were transformed into life through Christ death and resurrection. Through the salvation of accepting and knowing Jesus as Savior and Lord of our life. God will always provide a way, but it will always take His people receiving so that they can be the people with holy fire and tenacity to overcome every obstacle that we face on our way through this life. Until we reach the place where all anxiety ceases. We cannot interpret the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the indwelling into our own lives as a short cut.
Even though you might be feeling stuck – emotionally, physically, in a relationship, in doubt, in your finances, in life’s situations. But let’s not confuse the feeling of being stuck that we have no purpose. The Holy Spirit doesn’t only dwell in the fire and rushing wind: He abides and takes up residence in us. How the Holy Spirit thrives, and moves is through us, the church, the people of God all going in unity in the same direction.
Prayer – Holy Spirit, I know You’ve come. Remind me that you just didn’t start the fire, but you continue to be the one who drives the motion and momentum, that you are the sustainer. Give me faith over doubt, guide me in the paths that are clear and the way that I should go – Give me courage for the long journey ahead. I want you as my companion – help me to avoid everything that hinders that pathway. In Jesus name I pray – Amen
Thoughts from the Edges 
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