In church today are Pastor based part of his message around the saying if you're not moving forward you're moving backward. I disagree strongly with that.
When I look at different Psalms and they say wait on the Lord that's not moving forward. When I look at Ananias, the guy that ministered to Saul after he had been blinded on the road to Damascus, Ananias wasn't moving forward.
The corollary with this is if you're not growing your dying, which I've heard many times before also. I constantly think when I hear this that that is so wrong in my life. In my life I've been called to be a rock. The rock in the middle of a swirling river that's flooding the banks and overflowing me and trying to make me move. And yet here I am, still solid, still doing my thing. Not shaken. The river hates the rock. The river and the water and the drops and the splashes all laugh at the rock. It doesn't understand the rock. All it understands is the force of the movement and the constant pressure to go go go. There is no relating to the rock.
I tend to plant my feet on rocks and stand firmly. I think of my life as a testament to that. Not great, not perfect, successful, good things, good family doing great things.
So I bristle when I hear stuff like if you're not moving forward you're moving backward. It makes me feel guilty. Yet I'm still here doing my thing for the Lord.
