Are You Living Life As A Hermit?

(Proverbs 4:23) "Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.")


It was not too long ago that I preferred life as a hermit crab. The world’s hurts and disappointments had taken its toll on me and I had retreated into my shell. There I felt I could be alone, in my quiet shell, away from others.

There in my shell, I could hear the waves of life roll over me. One wave, another wave and now I were protected in my little shell. I no longer worried about being hurt, because I was secluded from this world. Not only could I not feel the hurts handed out by life’s circumstances, but unfortunately I also was sheltered from my Abba. I no longer could feel His loving embrace. I was so wrapped up in my warm little shell of this so-called life.

I was allowed to spend some time in my shell. Time where I could heal. And then, the pain of remaining was much more painful than seeking new life. Just as with a hermit crab, they too must move on at some point. They must seek a new home, a new journey.
My Papa, through the hard shell of my undulating pain, called my name, Beloved… Come to Me…

Just as a small child, seeking his mom, I, too, ran into His arms, and there I found comfort…and yes, I left one protected place into another, to that of my Savior.

Our lives were to be lived with others. As God made us, He instilled a passionate desire for us to spend our lives in the perfect relationship. That perfect relationship of course being God first, then the overflow of His love from would be lived out into relationships with others.

For the very core of our being – is "the spring of life"

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