Mic Drop

 The mic drop is a popular thing these days.  You say something strong, and for emphasis drop the microphone to the table or floor to indicate that "BOOM"...that's all there is to say on that!  It's supposed to send a powerful message and when it was first used, I'm sure it did.  Drop the mic...that's all there is to say about that.

Sometimes, God has Mic Drop moments that are legitimately powerful and can shake you to the core.  I had such a moment last night as I sat down to do my last lesson in the Bible Study on U-turns.  Last time I posted, I mentioned this, mentioned the U-turn I needed was partly to change my focus to be solely on God and to put some things in their proper places.  It's taken me to re-label some things sin that I didn't necessarily think were (my mom reads this, so that's all ya get).  I'm not always right.  God is never wrong.

The last lesson was about U-turns from impossible circumstances.  Some of you know I had, for a brief few months, what looked like an impossible circumstance turn around, only to turn into something far from that.  It hurts still to even think about that, but I also cannot change it.  And last night, as I watched the video for the last lesson I came to understand that maybe that was something else.  And now I'm sure that one of the things God used that for was this:  A re-test.

I didn't do what God told me to do the first time.  I put a comma into the instruction "...you need to love her".  I loved her until.  I loved her unless. I loved her the best way I knew how, but it was clear that I didn't know how to do what God told me to do.  He spent the last seven years teaching me how to love someone in impossible circumstances.  And then, the re-test.

Pastor Evans spoke of how God sometimes uses retests to reverse the impossible circumstances we create for ourselves.  I thought "Puppy Dog Girl" was the big test.  Sometimes, though, you can't see the forest for the trees and absolutely I had another chance to do what He told me to do and I did.  I had a lot of help from Him and He made me do some things that were incredibly hard to do, but He and He alone helped me do them through the power of His Holy Spirit.  Realizing that last night was a retest was a mic drop moment.

It shook me.  What shook me more was the verse Tony Evans used to close.  It's a verse I've been hanging onto since the first time I read it.  Joel 2:25  (I will restore to you the years the locusts ate...)

I don't know the future.  I asked today and the answer is still "wait".  That's another thing the lesson was about, not complicating God's plans with our own.  He's simply asking me to do one thing:  Wait.  Waiting isn't easy.  It's hard.  But it's also simple.  It's God saying, do nothing in this area you're waiting for an answer for.  Abraham and Sarah couldn't wait and look at the mess that created.  I'm gonna wait.

I always get quite a bit out of these lessons.  This one, though.  I think that's gonna stay with me for a while.