Wow I started this blog a year ago and look how it flew, I think because of going back to work. Maybe will be better at it this year. Anyway, I recently went to NYC and in every line at any counter here is what they say "Step Down" I was pressed against a counter in line at the popcorn store and the girl behind the counter yelled. "Next customer, step down!" I said back to her "what does that mean? How do I get any downer than I am" I think for her it was more of a habit of having said it 10,000 times that day. Anyway this got me thinking. Scary I know but my first thoughts were of the world and how it seems to want us to step down. Be like we are. Be crass, rude, immoral, unfeeling, unsympathetic, greedy, selfish.....I am sure you can add your own words to this list. Be anything but what Christ has called us to be. Be in the world but not of it I think is the part of scripture I am remembering. But later I was reading a devotion that I get via email on a daily basis. There was a paragraph that made me think we could look at this another way. It said " you, beloved, must go deeper before you can go higher. A new level of revelation awaits you, but you cannot go up until you go down to the depths of your soul to deal with the reproach that renews the besetting sin of fearing man. These bonds must be broken before you can be liberated to soar in the Spirit. Loose yourself and be free, says the Lord." So perhaps we can not be who God wants us to be in Him until we do to the depths of our soul. Have you Stepped Down?
