Your Crisis Has a Higher Ground

Someone once said, in our lives we're either heading into a crisis, in the middle of a crisis, or coming out of a crisis. No doubt life is full of high, lows and in betweens. The highs are great! The in betweens tend to be routine, where we can get comfortable. But a crisis can test even the strongest faith and cause us to stumble and fall into despair and hopelessness.

Are you walking in a crisis?

Look at what Psalms 18:33 says about walking in difficult places. I love the imagery of this verse. "He makes my feet like the feet of a deer and sets me securely on the heights."

If you're walking the slippery slope of a crisis, fearful of the next step, imagine navigating your crisis with the stability of the agile deer.

By design, a deer uses its feet to grip the difficult places it must walk and is consistently delivered from falling!

Like the deer, God can enable you to safely scamper to a high place in a crisis! There, you can tether yourself to the anchor that holds in any storm and feel secure. Your circumstance might not change in that moment, but you can get your head and heart above it and your eyes back on Jesus. You begin to see more clearly and can acknowledge that God is bigger than any crisis. You can sense that He is with you, never left you. You will become stronger when He whispers, I AM..... your strength, your hope!

How do you get to this high place?

1. Stay connected to God through His Word and prayer.

2. Bring the situation to God.

3. Give Him all anxiety, worry. Tell God you trust Him.

4. Pray thankful, trusting prayers.

5. Speak God's promises back to Him.

6. Listen for God's voice. Do what He says.

7. Rest in God's sovereignty.

8. Rejoice in Him. He is the God of your salvation!

It might not seem like it now but on the other side of your crisis you will see the magnificence of God, the gracious, loving Father who answered when you called out to Him on the high place of your crisis and walked with you every step of the way. Higher Ground!

Scripture references: Philippians 6:7; John 14:1; Proverbs 3:5,6; Jeremiah 17:7,8; Isaiah 12:2; Joshua 1:9