...There are those times however, when God simply fences in our way and He sets darkness in our path. Yet it is through those times that we learn that God is working out other things through the dark moments and our understanding is enlarged to embrace new dimensions of His will and purpose for us. God will never sanction any evil or sin no matter what the situation, for He is Holy. He will however allow and even send afflictions, bereavements, losses, crosses, pains and sorrows. At times, likewise, he gives liberty to our enemies, and allows them to trouble us, and for a time to prevail against us. He sends good and evil sometimes in quick succession. For instances, He sent the fish to preserve the life of Jonah, and grew a gourd over his head to provide him shelter and screen him from the hot sun. But He also sent the worm to destroy the gourd which in turn destroyed his shelter to teach Jonah a life lesson. Who can read the life of Jacob or Joseph, of David or Daniel, and not see that the Lord sends good and evil upon his people. As we learn gradually what we must, we also learn to cease our struggle and yield to His workings in us, and then and only then do we no longer think of our restraints in terms of punishment and judgment, but in pure "the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Heb. 12:11. For it is during those tight restraints and dark times, that we might share the experience that Job went through, when for a time he had no conscious sense of His presence, and he cried out, "Oh that I knew where I might find Him! That I might come even to His seat! Will He plead against me with His great power? No; but He would put strength into me. - Behold, I go forward, but He is not there; and back-ward, but I cannot perceive Him; on the left hand, where He works, but I cannot behold Him: He hides Himself on the right hand, that I cannot see Him. But He knows the way that I take: when He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold." Job 23:3, 6, 8-10, and this sweet friend is how you and I must look at our situations on every side. Like Paul we will affirm the same truth that He himself learned as he endured hardship, and declare, "Having come to this settled and firm persuasion concerning this very thing, namely, that He who began in you a work which is good, will bring it to a successful conclusion right up to the day of Christ Jesus." Phil. 1:6. So please sweet friend remember this, that in spite of your prayers and best efforts, as you see your situation worsen as God may be what appears to you, troubling you, hang in there, pray with a greater confidence and embrace those new dimensions of His will and purpose for your situation and know, just know that as you turn to Him through them, you will move them with more ease and peace, never to forget again that sometimes, God takes you through those troubled waters, not to drown you, but to cleanse you…. CLICK ON THE LINK TO READ THIS ENTIRE DEVOTION….Loving on you today, Bren
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 17:37:47 +0000
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