Positioning
Recently the Lord has brought back a lesson that I learned from playing varsity basketball in high school. I had a Bobby Knight wanna be coach who would scream for every player to “BOX OUT!” when a shot would go up. He used to yell incessantly about the need to position ourselves in a posture to get the rebound. Often, he’d even come in himself and bang his butt into us on the court to show us how aggressively we should be positioning ourselves ahead of time.
The Lord seems to be doing a lot of positioning or re-positioning these days. I know of so many people who are in transitional periods in life, and awaiting direction or something new that the Lord is preparing them for.
I can relate.
Inside, there is a holy anticipation of the miraculous fulfillment of several things the Lord has been reminding me of over the past year. Some of them have or are in the process of happening, while still others couldn’t seem further away.
But the Lord continues to speak to me that while I wait, I have to focus on BEING the man of God and less on DOING or trying to make something happen. If I focus on allowing him to change me internally, He will bring the external change around me. It’s about positioning myself for what He is calling me to do. Posturing and positioning are two different things. Posturing is us trying to make things happen on our schedule and in our ways. Positioning is allowing God to move us into the right place at the right time, and requires an extra measure of faith and patience.
“They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they will soar above like the eagles.”
