Tight Places

Tight places are temporary.


We were not meant to continually dwell in them.
They are seasons that give fresh prespective on soaring.  We tend to forget the value of freedom, the beauty of barriers.

Tight places tend to reveal those tensions within that stay concealed in the open places.There will be seasons, days, or passages where you can’t help but be in them.

Our Father is always faithful to provide sufficient space in our tight place…its called HOPE. And in this place of hope we learn not to set our eyes on what is seen, but unseen.

"God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble." ('trouble' in the orginal means..."tight places")

 We lose courage when we give more power to the tight places, then to the One who placed us there. There is an embracing of HOPE that allows for liberty in our limitations.

When we find this PLACE of abiding, we stop wondering....How Long?...and start understanding the POWER of “Contentment with Godliness is great gain.” (1 Tim. 6:6)

Tight places are made to set us free from

 Self's whining desire to always have control.   

We will know when SELF is still reigning when Squeezed, because it has excuses, and is always pointing to others or circumstances, for its woes.  This type of weakness carries a very destructive power, and its weapons do damage, because it only lives by what it sees and feels, longing for physical space, yet finding greater emptiness.  Seeing the Glory of God, in the FACE of Christ, will set us free from its power.


But when the Spirit is ruling, it is especially in these places that Christ is being manifested and seen, some times only by HIM.


“An occasional effort, even of an ordinary holiness, may accomplish great acts of sacrifice...Constant discipline in unnoticed ways, and the spirit's silent unselfishness, becoming the hidden habit of the life, give to it its true saintly beauty, and this is the result of care and lowly love in little things. Perfection is attained most readily by this constancy of religious faithfulness in all minor details of life, consecrating the daily efforts of self-forgetting love.”
~T.T. Carter