Sometimes God slows you down so He can show you what you were too busy to notice.
There was a season in my life when everything felt like it was moving backwards.
Plans that once flowed easily began to stumble.
Doors I thought would open effortlessly suddenly became heavy.
I kept asking, “God, why are You slowing me down when I’m finally ready to run?”
But the more I struggled to push forward,
the more life insisted that I pause.
And in that stillness, the one I didn’t choose
I started to see what I had been too busy to notice.
I noticed the habits that were draining my strength.
I noticed the people who clapped for me publicly but resented me privately.
I noticed the warning signs I had ignored because I was too focused on getting ahead.
I noticed me, the me I had been neglecting.
God wasn’t punishing me.
He was protecting me.
He was whispering,
“Slow down. Let Me show you what you missed.”
And what I saw in that pause changed everything. Sometimes the slowdown isn’t a setback, it is a rescue and sometimes what God saves you from in the quiet, is far greater than what you were rushing toward in noise.
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