ANCHORED DOWN
Today's reading: Job 29-30

"For God has cut the cords of my tent. He has humbled me, so they have thrown off all restraint." Job 30:11 NLT

I've done some research in these early morning hours.

I've Google-d, Biblehub-bed and cross referenced.

I've found one word that has stopped me in my tracks.

It sums my feelings up.

It defines what I couldn't put into words...

When I attempted to understand the cut tent cords, a few of my reference sites mentioned the word, 'tether'.

That's it.

Sometimes I feel, as Job articulated, like the tether holding me down has been cut--and my whole life is just flapping in the dusty desert winds like the flaps of a tent in a windstorm. It feels as if all I have inside me (inside the walls of my tent) are being exposed to the world, to the elements, to the opinions of others. It feels as if things are topsy-turvy, upside-down and inside out.

I feel un-tethered.

And yet I know, I am anchored down. I know, like Job knew, God's love keeps me held tightly to Him. I know, despite how I feel, despite the flapping of my tent and the sand being blown into everything I own--that God has not allowed me to be drawn away from Him.