Doing my devotions this morning and thought Id share todays with you. It comes from the book Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowan that was given to me by a very dear friend after Brendan went home to heaven. This is a really good devotional book for anyone who is suffering through a valley or desert in their life. I highly recommend it. Todays devotion struck me so deeply. Dear friends, you can trust in the One who created you. It doesnt mean that there wont be pain because there is and sometimes so much that at times it feels unbearable. It does mean though, that we can trust God with every fiber of our being and know that he will be there every step with us to give us the strength that we need each and every day. God will carry out the plan that he has for each and every one of us...trust Him. August 1 Offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life. (Romans 6:13) One night I went to hear a sermon on consecration. Nothing special came to me from the message, but as the preacher knelt to pray, he said, O, Lord, You know we can trust the Man who died for us. That was my message. As I rose from my knees and walked down the street to catch the train, I deeply pondered all that consecration would mean to my life. I was afraid as I considered the personal cost, and suddenly, above the noise of the street traffic, came this message: You can trust the Man who died for you. I boarded the train, and as I traveled toward home, I thought of the changes, sacrifices, and disappointments that consecration might mean in my life -- and I was still afraid. Upon arriving home, I went straight to my room, fell on my knees, and saw my life pass before my eyes. I was a Christian, an officer in the church, and a Sunday school superintendent, but I had never yielded my life to God with a definite act of my will. Yet as I thought of my own precious plans that might be thwarted, my beloved hopes to be surrendered and my chosen profession that I might have to abandon -- I was afraid. I completely failed to see the better things God had for me, so my soul was running from Him. And then for the last time, with a swift force of convicting power to my inmost heart, came that searching message: My child, you can trust the Man who died for you. If you cannot trust Him, then who can you trust? Finally that settled it for me, for in a flash of light I realized that the Man who loved me enough to die for me could be absolutely trusted with the total concerns of the life He had saved. Dear friend, you can trust the man who died for you. You can trust Him to thwart each plan that should be stopped and to complete each one that results in His greatest glory and your highest good. You can trust Him to lead you down the path that is the very best in this world for you. J.H.M. Just as I am, Thy love unknown, Has broken every barrier down, Now to be Thine, yea, Thine ALONE, O Lamb of God, I come! Life is not wreckage to be saved out of the world but an investment to be used in the world.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:31:24 +0000
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