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2-3-13 Stuck in the elevator of life


2-3-13 Stuck in the elevator of life

I went to a conference the other day and the lady was telling a story about getting stuck in an elevator and to keep from panicking she began to praise God.  Then she heard a voice say, “I’m coming to get you.” She said it was like God answering her but of course it was just the elevator man.

So in life we have ups and downs.  Sometimes we stop on this floor or that.  Maybe we stop off at the bar floor, or the party floor, or the drug floor, or the sex floor.  Maybe we even stop off at the church floor and maybe we even stay there awhile. But, maybe when we get back on the elevator of life we meet up with an old friend from one of the other floors and we get off on that floor again.  Or maybe when we passed the other floor the door opened and the music, the laughter, the smiling faces caused us to leave the elevator and hang out.

So goes our life. Up and down on the elevator, making good and bad choices until one day the elevator gets stuck and we have to make a choice about where we want to get off.  And maybe in that dark hour of waiting to be rescued we call on THE elevator man and He says “I’m coming to get you.” What joy and relief we experience at those words! WE ARE BEING RESCUED!

Perhaps your stuck elevator experience is a little different.  The ground floor you got on was church and as you grew and served God your elevator went up.  But something happened that caused your elevator to get stuck at a certain level.  So you cry out to THE elevator man and He tells you “I’m coming to get you.” for He wants you to come up higher, to reach the penthouse where He resides.

Don’t get stuck in the elevator no matter which car it is you’re in.  Call on life’s elevator man – God – and let Him bring you up higher to where He is.  After all that’s what He desires – for you to abide with Him.  And that isn’t just a “here-after” statement.  He wants to abide with you here and now, daily, and ride that elevator of life with you so that you don’t get stuck!

Melissa Going
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