Unhinged

I have lived a life unhinged, a life deprived of stability, or so it seems. Whenever I thought life was going strong, I would have a set back and find myself at the beginning again. Have you ever felt like that? I have, all too often. I had a mentor from TheKing’sCompany, CJ Millican, relate it to me in the way of a video game.

Do you know that feeling you get when you're still on level one and you keep on dying? You die every time before you can get to the half-way point to save your progress! This is what I felt like. I felt as if I was at the beginning of level one for years. I kept on re-playing the level over and over again, until I finally reached the half-way point.

However, it was not the game’s fault, it was the operator, ME!! I was the one doing it all wrong.

Has your life ever been in a season of disorder? The game is just not making sense. Maybe you feel like nothing ever goes right.

Are you drowning in the water before you can swim to the top for air? Has your mind ever been in a place of uncertainty, and you cannot see what the plan is? Perhaps, you are stuck and don’t know which way to go. Maybe, your next move is hidden inside one of the special blocks. The move is unplanned, sudden, and not traditional.

Sometimes we have to leave tradition to find out God’s real plan that tradition hides. Is the pain and suffering too hard to bear? If this is you, you are not alone.

You, just like me, are simply living life Unhinged. You haven’t read the instructions that came with your game. Your life is mentally unstable, with God not having total control over your situations. Just like you can’t have control over the game unless you know the directions and how to navigate through it.

This is not new in the life of a Christian, I just didn’t know how to give God total control of my life. I gave control to religion and boy was I good at it too. I kept all the laws, I read my Bible daily, I prayed daily and I didn’t do the things that I saw as “wrong.” But did I have a relationship with Jesus? Or, was I just doing things, “works” to be seen as being a good Christian? What does it mean to be unhinged from God and His word? I believed in God but my life was still so chaotic and didn’t reflect my beliefs. My life did not reflect Christ.