Our time through Space time

My name is Joleigh. I am going to take you on a journey. A journey of thought provoking stories, deep research, and intense poems. As of right now I work a full time job. And dealing with a battle within. However, I am determined to get my writing off of the rust factor and back in full swing; as I trust in the Lord and take the reins of who I am meant to be, as an author. This being my first entry into published writing, I attempted it to be entirely not first person, at all. In fact I scrapped a few topics in the first hour that were strictly research, fully information only pieces, however, I am more comfortable and feel more suited to enter this way. So here we are.

-Joleigh

OUR TIME THROUGH SPACE AND TIME

In this life we move through space and time. As we move we make decisions nonstop and judgment calls. Also, as we move, we are growing physically. We cannot forget we have mental and spiritual growth that need to take place as well. If we do it right we become better people. If we do not do it or do it wrong. We can repeat generation curses or be lost in a world of chaos and confusion. When we are able to make decisions best for us and others on what to avoid in a fallen world and to live a life in the way God wants for us we grow to be fully complete, not lacking, not wanting in nothing. James 1:4.

This verse from the bible I am about to quote and the following thereafter will help grasp this concept. And now without further ado.

“Listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

This verse is from the book of Job chapter 33 verse 33. When we dive deep into this verse and vaguely on the story we will understand all aspects of its meaning and how it will impact your understanding on life.

Up to this verse in the story, Job has been terrorized and dealt a hand of misfortune after misfortune events, including death of loved ones. Basically, everything but death itself. On Job himself and his wife. As we get to the point where job is speaking with three of his friends they are all trying to decipher why this is occurring in his life. They are believing and telling him he must be a “terrible” person and must have sinned for having all this judgement put on him. While Job on the other hand, is insisting he is innocent, that all this suffering is unjust.

Now if you do not know the story, Job is a righteous man (from the mouth of God), and is being tempted by Satan (the accuser) to curse God and turn away from him. He and his friend at this point in the story are lost and confused of how God, who is just and righteous, would let Job suffer.

Now in the story this is when a man shows up and enters the dialogue. He is representing God himself; and what is interesting is that he waits until they are completely out of accusations or in Job’s case pleading his innocence before he shares his deep insight. Which I sum up for you here.

When you are finished or stumped on analyzing a situation of any kind like they were, you then have the option of listening to God to help you see why the story unfolded the way it had. Or to simply trust God is just and righteous. Instead of settling on a conclusion of your own understanding. this then lets the process of wisdom do its work of showing you what you could not see in the situation, as it was unfolding.

If you are listening to wisdom you are being taught, congruently, or, at the same time, and in return you are gaining importance of a matter that you need in order to understand it as a whole thereby grow in the correct form aka character development for an opportunity to be well rounded or perfected in Gods eyes.

This lesson is so important because we miss things with every situation we are in, as we can not see every side to everything that is happening all at once. And our perspective is just our own. To give an example. Say I was doing laundry and I brought my dog in with me. He is a pup and very playful. I am not alone doing laundry, even though it’s late at night, there is one other person inside. I let the dog go free and the person seems to not mind, and I even ask if my dog is bothering him as he wants to play in the man’s space, with the man, so to speak. Well the man says he is OK. So I accept it and go on with my work. A few moments later I get up and my dog follows me.

This is when I get the opportunity to see he is acting rough and hyper. So I decided it’s best to put him up. This is just an example of humility and respecting that voice inside that is wisdom. Though it seems like something so silly but imagine if I just let him go about acting how he wanted to and being rough it could have gotten out of hand and also a missed opportunity of training my dog. I think it’s important because handling a situation like that actually had me thinking , once the dog was put up, maybe the man was being nice and didn’t want to say anything. And I can go on and on about how just handling this situation correctly empowered me with growth in all around character.

Being silent so you can hear God gives you an opportunity to understand things more deeply and how it’s meant to be understood for your benefit. And it takes humility to do so, because you can’t have Wisdom: the ability to apply knowledge, experience, and good judgment to navigate life’s complexities and make sound decisions if you can’t “shut up sometimes”.