I’m writing to you today in an unfortunate position. I’m lying down on my back and trying not to move. Once in a while, my lower back goes out. Unfortunately, I’ve had that problem since I was a child. Apparently, I have a slight deformation of the 5th lumbar (called the L5 vertebrae) thus causing occasional slippage, which in turn, the pinching of nerves. Very painful! I’ve had that diagnosis since childhood. Although it troubled me on occasion during my athletic career, now that I’m reaching my middle age years, it seems to want to revisit more often.
In my athletic years, my teammates and me went to the chiropractor often. This was part of our training regiment. He would do a thorough investigation of our spinal cord and watch for possible slips of the vertebrae. Then he would align our vertebrae by twisting us like pretzels and snapping our vertebrae in their proper alignment. It was painful at times but it kept us from injury and in our full motion capacity.
My point is this… During this season of DIVINE ORDER, consider these three observations:
- The pain you are feeling is simply an alarm signaling that your alignment is out of order and you’re living in divine disorder.
- Your pain and disorder must take you to a place where you allow God to work on you. It will get worse, if you don’t “ let go” and “let God” do His work in you.
- Don’t be alarmed if the process to divine order will cause you to have to twist your life (like a pretzel) in order for you to achieve proper spiritual alignment. The road to divine order can be a twisted one… but be encouraged, the rewards are liberating!
Anxious to read your thoughts,
Pastor Manny
