Swimming Upstream: “Bye Bye Mysteries”

In frustration, I blurted, “Lord, walking with You is so complicated.”

“No, it’s not,” the Holy Spirit spoke to me heart, “it’s very simple. Just ask, believe, and repent and change when I show you. That’s all you’re required to do. ”

Pretty hard to argue with the Lord’s reasoning, right?

Just recently, I confessed that I read mysteries. And if I had to guess how many sleuth novels I’ve read over the last 4 to 5 years, I’d say somewhere between 300 and 350. As you can see, I really enjoyed reading them

Well, no more mysteries for me. Why?

The other day, I picked up the novel I was reading and I felt something. There  was no voice. No thought process. I just knew that the grace which I had for reading mystery novels had lifted off me and gone bye bye.  To continue reading more mystery novels would be an act of disobedience on my part.

I told Honey the news. “So, won’t you miss reading them, huh?” she asked.

“No. Absolutely not,” I said without blinking an eye.

So, how could I walk away from something I enjoyed so much, without looking back or at least finishing the novel that I was in the middle of?

I fear the Lord. Period.

And my fear of the Lord came through some awful experiences that I never, ever, never, ever want to go through again. I would rather die first!

The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to avoid the snares of death. (Proverbs 14:27)

Swimming Upstream appears at this blog site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It’s  a little of this and a little of that, all written  to encourage and exhort believers in their Christian jouneys.