If The Mountain Was Smooth You Couldn't Climb It

Dear God, please untie the knots that are in my mind, my heart and my life. Remove the have nots, the can nots and the do nots that I have in my mind. Erase the will nots, may nots, might nots that may find a home in my heart. Release me from the could nots, would nots and should nots that obstruct my life. And most of all dear God, I ask that you remove from my mind, my heart and my life all the 'am nots', that I have allowed to hold me back, especially the thought that I am not good enough. Amen

This prose is titled simply "The Knots Prayer" and was signed "Author known to God". I received it in my email one day and decided to save it for a possible entry in my blog... so here we are today and I am sharing my thoughts with you.

Have you ever found yourself in a place where you felt you couldn’t get out, or move forward or just defeated and didn’t know which way to turn? Your life, your thoughts, your desires were all tied up in knots. I know I have! It is those times were I find myself crying out to the Lord, “things are a mess and I don’t know where to begin.” That is when the Lord speaks to me and lets me know I have come to the right place – at the foot of the cross.

Sometimes the Lord tells us to simply “wait”, wait for the answer, wait for the healing, wait for the solution, but be still and wait. The title of my blog today is “If the Mountain Was Smooth You Couldn’t Climb it…” It was posted on my friends web chat page as her thought for the day and she in turn got it from someone else and so on. I found those seemingly simple words to be so profoundly true. It is through those crevices in the rocks that allow us to grab hold and eventually climb the mountain. That is how I am going to begin to look at my “knots” in life, just as crevices to let me catch hold and wait on the Lord for my next step. I am going to eventually climb that mountain of life with God’s help each step of the way.

I would like to share a passage from the Bible as written in “The Message” (a contemporary rendering of the Bible), but please feel free to look in up in any of your translations. Beginning with about the 24th verse of Romans 8,

“We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy. Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God’s Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don’t know how or what to pray, it doesn’t matter. He does our praying in and for us…”

Lord Jesus, thank you that the mountain is not smooth. Thank you for teaching me to wait. Thank you for helping me to be the person you designed me to be. Thank you for making me who I am today!