Many times, we think about our routine without thinking about our routine, lol. What I mean is, that we are such habitual creatures, it brings comfort, that we don’t even realize how much of a routine we have until something shifts. Watch something change in your life and tell me you don’t have a disruption to your routine…even those who claim to fly by the seat of their pants. Of course, those who have actual planned daily routines, even on a board for time allotted for specific activities, recognize their routines, lol. But how many of us are really at a place like that? Maybe with somethings, but most are not. Either way, let’s think about something that recently changed…the time. How many of you all struggled with the shift in our sleep schedules? Does it seem like time goes by faster? ME! ME! ME! Oh my, I didn’t realize how much disruption this would bring to my daily schedule…one hour shift and my daily is all over the place. But…instead of going negative with it or claiming the enemy is messing, I was led to change my perspective in regard to the shift. Here I was on the struggle train because I was used to a certain routine and schedule that worked for my life. But it is time to shake things up! God is permitting it for me to get outside of my routine, become more aware of my time, more aware of my comfort level, not to bring forth sleep deprivation, lol, but instead to move forward to a place of newness for the season. Because it was familiar, it was something that our flesh was accustomed to. Which makes the great point that we need to recognize that our flesh is not in control, even for our daily routines. It is time to become even more aware of the things we find comfort in, which have nothing to do with our spiritual man, but instead our flesh or carnality only. We had a routine prior to the pandemic shutdowns, and then we developed routines, even if they changed, during, but we are moving out of that. Seasons change, so will our comfort level, our routines must align with what the Father desires for the seasons. Business as usual left the building a long time ago…we just missed the memo. It’s time to seek to remain uncomfortable. In fact, find comfort in being uncomfortable or the need to move in a direction we were unable to see, unable to be open to before. We need to be ready for whatever is to come, and to a place where it doesn’t shake us to a place that incapacitates us, even if for a moment. We cannot be that locked into our fleshly comfort that when the spirit says move, we have an argument of why not, when the movement needed to be flawlessly executed for the sake of protection, of another’s soul, of increase, of opportunity and so on. Obedience is key and our flesh is our greatest hurdle…not the enemy.
“He must increase, but I [must] decrease. He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all” John 3:30-31.
“Dearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul” I Peter 2:11.
“[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday: And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in” Isaiah 58:6-12.