Every Friday I join a community of bloggers for Five Minute Friday. One word prompt, five minutes. Unedited. The prompt this week is … Middle.
The middle is not the most comfortable place to be. It feels like being neither here nor there.
God told His people to go to the middle:
“Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight.” (Joshua 4:3, NASB)
The stones from the middle of the Jordan River, stones of remembrance, were to be set up in a memorial.
It is in the middle of hard circumstances that our God shows up, working His grace and mercy. He parts open the most impossible situation, breaking them apart in the middle, and we get a glimpse of His Presence there with us.
It is in the middle that we collect those stones of remembrance. We pile them up in our hearts and minds so we never forget the deeds of the Lord our God.
We pile the stones and the remembrances so when our children ask, we can respond, “He did this:
“so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you may fear the Lord your God forever.” (Joshua 4:24, NASB)
The middle –
the place we remember that
God showed up, working His grace and mercy.
Photo by Jeppe Hove Jensen on Unsplash
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We are often in the middle as you say…thanks for the image of the stones stacked in remembrance! I have some stones…may need to make a stack…so visually pleasing and a powerful image of us stacking memories!
Jennifer, FMF
Jennifer, you brought a smile as I remembered a time when I had a few stones stacked on my windowsill as a remembrance. It may be time to do so again!
Good practice to pick up stones of remembrance along the way!
As my granddaughter and I take walks, she picks up rocks, leaves, and sticks to bring back to our yard. And that is just it – it happens along the way!
I find the middle a place of peace and progress!
In the middle of everything He always has an ample supply of mercy and grace!
Ellen, I’m grateful for the reminder of His ample supply!
The middle -is a place where I am at this time, other times in the past. I am seeing “the middle” as a patience academy. So many benefits for me in the middle. I won’t forget that the middle even resting looks to Jesus knowing there is an end.
Marilyn, I loved how you phrased it – “as a patience academy.” Much wisdom in this perspective for us all!
Praise be to our good God who meets us where we are in the middle of any situation. Blessings.
~Selah~
Visiting from FMF#4
Well, I’m neither here nor there,
not living, not yet dead,
but, dude, I really do not care
and I toss back my head
and give the world a mighty laugh,
yeah, a real humdinger,
and if you take my photograph,
I’ll give cancer the finger.
So what, that there’s a lot of pain,
so what, food make me “Yuck!”
I am here, and will remain
(with a little luck!)
to while away these last of times
in composition of bad rhymes.
“The middle ”“
the place we remember that
God showed up, working His grace and mercy.”
Yes. Sometimes it’s in the middle that I find him to be the foggiest, but he is there just as much as the beginning and end.