Ugh! So much of the time life feels like you are stuck between a rock and a hard place and like that rock and hard place gets bigger and bigger and closer and closer together!
We want out of this place, right? How do we get out? The only way is to break through either the rock or the hard place, right?
So often we sit around waiting for our breakthrough, that moment of relief and reprieve, the moment life is no longer “hard” but becomes easy. Well, guess what? Breakthrough isn’t easy either!
The very word says it all… BREAK-through. You can either be broken by the rock and hard place or you can break through them. Either way there WILL be a BREAKING.
So, ask yourself this question: which will it be? Are you ready to break through? Are you going to put your hand to the “plow” and put your hope, trust and faith in the God who breaks through or will you remain in fear and hopelessness to be broken by your circumstances, those rocks and hard places? Will you allow God to “break” you “through” those circumstance in order to put you back together properly or will you let those rocks and hard places finish the job of crushing your broken by life spirit?
“The One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their King will pass through before them, the Lord at their head.””
Micah 2:13 NIV
“And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.”
2 Samuel 5:20 ESV
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 ESV