We NEED These Narrows

We're between the dates linked to the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temples; the calf crisis and the failure to launch into the Promised Land.  

These Straits or the Narrows are a grief for some, but a gift for us to lighten, accelerate, and ascend.  

Lord knows we NEED things narrowed: We have too many choices, tasks, people, and information. Yikes!   

The Narrows is a time when we align with God's design to break off the things that keep us from His narrow way.  

No one said that's easy: The wings of a butterfly can only be fully formed as she presses out of the narrow cocoon. 

Our birth required a traumatic press through the narrow canal into NEW life.

Climbers see narrows as a relief:  A  'chimney' makes ascending easier than navigating the open rock face.

All of us have experienced that spiritually - when the pain of constraints helped lift us higher into the Presence of the Lord.

Narrows can even help accelerate us along the path: Think of a river flowing gently downstream, but when it passes through a narrow place, that speed increases.  

Much, much more on the replay to help you embrace the fullness of the 'problem' of narrows. 

We really do NEED these narrows so we can advance to the place God has for us in the way He wants us to move.

'Strive to enter through the narrow way,' says Jesus. (Lk 14) 

That way leads to LIFE!

Stephen

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