Ever wonder how at a certain point in your life, everything tends to go downstream — your career, finances, relationships, family — and before you can find your footing, the surrounding pressure has already accumulated. You watch your friends and peers seem to receive everything you have been believing for, and something quietly breaks on the inside. You become like a lone and wounded wolf in the desert, at the peak of your diminishing strength. What you desire most is not even greatness anymore — it is simply to survive. To find stable ground. To breathe. And yet the world offers no guarantees. No security. No stillness. Just noise.
In a world where external factors greatly influence and affect our internal realms, it is a broken world after all — what more is to be expected? Having seen so much chaos, the faith of many is severed because of affliction, lack, betrayal, greed, delay and instability. Life in itself has become fickle.
"Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away." James 4:14 (NKJV)
There is no other way — we must take a different route if we are to truly live. When I received the word solitude in chaos by inspiration, I thought to myself: Could there be a world I haven't explored or experienced? Is withdrawal the coping mechanism to survive? What does it actually mean to be in solitude even in the chaos around me? It is not withdrawal, neither is it denial of the present, but a hidden internal world that the storm cannot reach. The Lord said to me, "It is time to stand differently."
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us."Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV)
The Greek word for ensnare is euperistatos, which means "easily surrounding" or "standing all around" — painting a vivid picture of a weight that tightly wraps around your legs and traps you, hindering you from running the Christian race. I am more particular about the weights, which are often neglected and have become a part of our internal processes as humans. Bitterness, betrayal, insecurity, hurt, lack, sadness, grief, distrust — these are all snares. How we handle them determines what fruit they produce in us. Many individuals have lost their identity because of what they have been through and can't trace back what they once were, simply because these weights have encompassed them and have been incorporated into their world. This disposition in the spirit is a snare that has entangled itself around you, causing a stunted walk or, in many cases, delay.
But there is a call to bring you to an awareness of what we have with God and within us. Encompassed by this monumental cloud of witnesses, I realise it is far more than a comforting illusion or a declaration of faith — it is a tangible reality. Grounded in this truth, we are compelled to cast off every weight of chaos. We are drawn into the sacred sanctuary of internal solitude, encompassed only by the sweet comfort that God promises, and then we run with endurance the race that is set before us. This is the ultimate path to finishing our course.
We see this perfectly illustrated in the life of Jesus. Secure in His divine identity, He slept undisturbed amidst a raging storm. Though the disciples succumbed to terror and cried out, Jesus looked past the weather to address their spiritual state: 'Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?' (Matthew 8:26).
"He corrected their fear before He corrected the environment."
To master the chaos around you, you must focus entirely on the faith within you. Entering this profound state of internal solitude is reserved for those who anchor their minds above the storm. Only after establishing this internal quiet did He rise to command the physical realm: 'Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm' (Matthew 8:26–27).
Remember what the scripture says: 'You who still the noise of the seas, the noise of their waves, and the tumult of the peoples' (Psalm 65:7). Consider also: 'You rule the raging of the sea; when its waves rise, You still them' (Psalm 89:9). There is a final rest that Jesus is leading you into. As you endure the race and navigate the chaos, your anchor and faith must rest entirely on Jesus. 'He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. Then they are glad because they are quiet; so He guides them to their desired haven' (Psalm 107:29–30). He can only guide you to your desired haven, however, if you become completely still and enter the profound solitude where God is truly known.
I leave you with this: the world is rapidly advancing and continuously being thrown into chaos. Now, more than ever, is the time to hold fast to faith, look past external appearances, and allow yourself to be completely absorbed into a marvellous inner peace. I am not encouraging you to be ignorant of current events. Rather, I am inviting you into an awareness of a place that is truly attainable — a world of deep peace, comfort, assurance, and hope in the Holy Ghost.
Peace be unto you.
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