In August, JD received a prophetic word that we were going into a season of shaking. I was in a weird place spiritually at the time and I remember having such fear about it. I honestly tried to blow it off. A couple weeks ago it came to my mind and it all made total sense. I truly believe we have been walking in that season without ever being aware of it. Our life has always been a little crazy but the last couple of months multiple areas of our life have seemed to be turned upside down, shifted, chaotic. We recognized it as being a spiritual thing (see Ephesians 6:12 if you don't know what I mean by that) a couple weeks into it, but I honestly didn't even have a thought about that word until a month or so after that. I wish I could say we are on the other side of this season, but I don't think that's true. I think we are looking in the eye of the storm, either closely behind it or about to hit it.
As crazy as it has been I have loved this season. I remember feeling so unsettled about 6 weeks ago and as I look at what the past few weeks have brought I know I have received things that in no other circumstance I otherwise would have. Even being in the middle of it, I know it's a gift. Recently, different people who I'm close with told me how they thought this season was ending. For them, it may be. Several people we know have been experiencing different degrees of this shaking in their lives. But for us, I knew it wasn't. Thankfully I didn't let my mindset shift out of sync and yesterday the Lord spoke something so beautiful and timely into my heart that I just had to share.
John 21:22 says, "Jesus answered, 'If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me." In this statement Jesus was replying to a question that Peter had asked about John. You see, Jesus had just told Peter something about himself and in an effort of comparison he asks Jesus about John as well.
I so have this tendency! I find myself comparing constantly. Relationships, ministry, lifestyles, fashion, the list goes on. It is a constant battle I fight in my mind to not compare. Jesus speaks so directly to this in a way that I've never noticed before.
What happens with other people doesn't matter. Jesus asks, "What is that to you?"
God has a specific calling, plan, destiny that He designed for me and me only (Psalm 139:16). No matter what else is going on in circumstances around me I am called to follow Jesus and His guiding. Follow. Not try to figure out what all is happening around me, come up with an action plan and go. No. I'm called to follow. No matter what, in every season. So in this season of shaking, I'm following Jesus and finding so much peace in that.
