Lack of sleep has sent me to the sofa. The night is pitch dark and silent. Slowly and soundless, I pick up a book. Trying not to cause the silence to cease. Maximising the sleepless moment by reading truth and taking in a special moment.
Ten minutes go by and I decide that it is time again to try falling asleep. A 50 kroner note lies on the table and I pick it up to use it as a book mark in the book.
As I stand up from the couch to go to bed, my 50 kroner note bookmark falls out and lands and gets stuck in the couch gap. As it landed there, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about gold & gaps.
Gaps rarely feel golden… It seems hard and rare to find “50 kroner notes” in our gaps. Whether it’s a gap of finances, relationships or meaning in our lives, a gap seems to scream for our attention! “Hey, look at this! This is not enough, you are not enough, this is empty, not developed, not yet filled….”
In gaps and cracks, things can get stuck and dirt can easily snuck in. It can do so in a physical gap and it can do so in an emotional or spiritual one too. It is like the natural and the spiritual in life never fail to reveal something about ‘each other’.
When I experience a gap, I know I am vulnerable to attack. I need to have guards up to protect my gap from making my mindset muddy!
But gold can also be found in the gaps if we pay attention. It could have been easy to miss the 50 kroner in my sofa gap!
Gold & gaps are probably more intertwined than I might have realized.
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Japanese artists literally repair broken things with gold in their art tradition kintsugi. The idea that broken things and adversity can make something and someone more beautiful is actually mind-blowing. It makes pottery and people alike into stunning, unique masterpieces.
In the gaps and cracks, there are beautiful treasures to look for.
Beautiful treasures of patient endurance and reminding ourselves of promises like these:
“Even the strong and wealthy grow weak and hungry, but those who passionately pursue the Lord will never lack any good thing.” Psalms 34,10 TPT.
“The lovers of God will have more than enough” Prov.13,25 TPT.
God is remaking us into a people invincible. (Micah 4,13 MSG) A people incapable of being conquered, defeated or subdued! A people that is ever transformed in the Potter’s hands, ever filled with His abundance in our gaps.
Therefore, endure in the gap. Be patient with yourself in the gap. It is working well-formed maturity in you. Fill the gaps with His word and friends’ empowering truth over you.
It is not as it seems. His power is made perfect in our weakness. You will bend but not break.
Dare to believe, there is gold in the gaps.
Heaven is near & Jesus of abundance is here.
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