Rock bottom can be viewed as good or as bad.
Isn't everything always all about perspective.
Maybe you don't know what rock bottom means?
On Wikipedia they define rock bottom as: The culmination of a descent to a place where a person has nothing left to lose in terms of possessions, status, wealth and perhaps even shelter, food and warmth as a result of self destructive behavior.
Many people believe you hit rock bottom when you are in the worse situation. The lowest possible low you could be in.
People refer to hitting rock bottom after losing a job, or home, a relationship, or having a bank account at zero.
However, what if they were wrong? What if all this time hitting rock bottom was the best possible situation to be in?!
Is it possible you can hit rock bottom over and over again if your rocks are not solid?
I am starting to believe that rock bottom is the best place to be in when you need to start over. Maybe when we hit rock bottom we actually are in a good spot instead of a bad? What if when you hit rock bottom (and trust me you will- we all do) you looked at the rocks that you were hitting?
Yep I asked you to look down. Look at the rocks in front of you. Look at the rock under your feet. Look around at the rocks that surround you. Who made the rocks? What do the rocks represent? Who is the rock? What rocks need to stay and what rocks need to go?
See I feel like I am at a place in my life that I have hit rock bottom.
According to some I should hate this place. I should be climbing my way back up. However, if I just start climbing back up on bad rocks, I will eventually end right back at rock bottom; won't I?
So instead of climbing, I am on my knees. I am face down. I am looking at the rocks and throwing out the old rocks that my life was once built on. God was among the rocks in my life, but he was not the rock. Rocks like perfection, people pleasing, pride, shame, hate, unforgiveness etc etc were more in abundance and cluttering my foundation.
I am asking God to remove my bad rocks and replace with new rocks.
I have hope and I KNOW I won't be at rock bottom forever. He has promised me that.
However for now rock bottom has been good for me. Rock bottom has my eyes re-focused on his glorious face and doing the hard work to have a solid foundation.
My foundation will be solid because it will be based on him. He won't just be a few small rocks that are thrown in for good measure.
I had to hit rock bottom to find out who and what was my foundation was built on. It was not good.
I am currently at rock bottom to build a new foundation. A new foundation that is solid. A solid foundation. Replacing worldly rocks with one rock. A perfect rock. A solid rock. That rock is God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
I had to hit rock bottom to become who He wanted me to be. I had to hit rock bottom to find out who I really was. I had to hit rock bottom to find him. To really say I trust him. To really be able to say that I am all in.
So when I start climbing my foundation will not be based on lies, half truths or other people but will be built on the king.
I had to hit rock bottom so that my life would be different. Don't we want our lives to be different?
I had to hit rock bottom and thankful it happened.
I want my life to be solid. I want my foundation to be set firmly on His rocks. The rocks he provides. The rocks he gives. The rocks that he wants in my life like grace, mercy, love, opportunities etc etc.
I had to hit rock bottom to see who was all in with me. To see what friends were solid rocks and to have room for new solid rocks.
See if I had not ever been at rock bottom I would have never been truly free. I would have always been stepping on rocks that would have easily moved me or shaken me.
His rock however doesn't move or change when I step. His rock holds me up.
My foundation had to be rebuilt and the only way to do that was by starting at rock bottom.
So when you hit rock bottom. Love it. Don't make a home there and stay there. But love that the opportunity to start over. Do the hard work of starting over. Lay the right foundation down. Fall on your face, look around and start asking Him to get rid of the rocks he doesn't want in your life. Keep the one and only rock that is solid enough to stand on. He is that rock. Ask him to be your rock.
If I hadn't hit rock bottom I would not have ever have known what was on my bottom. He was there, but he was being covered by a whole lot of fake rocks. He was not okay with that and quite frankly I am glad he wasn't.