dealing with spiritual vertigo...

Its funny, I know a lot of pastors who can't remember on most Monday's what they preached on Sunday. That's usually due to the busy schedules and multiple tasks that need to be accomplished and mentally processed. But this morning, I woke up incredibly early (3:45am) with yesterdays message on my mind and heart for my own life. I spoke on the Symptoms of Spiritual Vertigo Listen Online - that's the feeling of being disoriented, unsure of whether you are coming or going. This describes much of my faith journey as I attempt daily to follow Jesus. It is comforting to know that the early apostles experienced much the same confused state of mind as they attempted to process everything they were seeing and hearing. Acts 1:1-11 describes a group of apostles who seem completely overwhelmed and disenfranchised as forty days with several appearances from the risen Lord comes to an end with them straining and staring up in the sky where Jesus just ascended. What a ride! What a journey the previous three years had been for them. I've been thinking this morning about my own spiritual journey with Christ. It's been full of "What? Why? Where? How?" inquiries with a few moments of refreshing clarity concerning God's will and plan for my life or direction he desired for me or the ministry I was leading. What a ride! My mind is already on next weeks message where I pick up at verse 12 and discuss the Cure for Spiritual Vertigo. I'm on this journey with everyone I'm teaching. God doesn't want us moving full steam ahead in life while disoriented, confused and dizzy. Sometimes it takes being still to know that He is God and has things all under control. Somethings we don't know and will never know until we are face to face in the presence of the one who made us. For now, in times of disarray, we simply need to trust and obey...What a great Monday morning perspective and cure for the common spiritual morning sickness that happens to most who dare to get impregnated with vision from on high.