Hi Dears. Praise The Lord........ White of an Egg Reading: Job 19:7-21Though the fig tree does not bud...and no cattle in the stalls,yet I will rejoice in the Lord (Hab 3:17,18) The lamenting Job asked, Is there any taste in the white of an egg? (Job 6:6). No, it is not tasty, but is nutritious! The trials of life point to the measure of our faith. When we take our eyes off Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our Faith, we run into problems (Heb 12:1). We cry when we get drowned in them and then God asks us, Where is your faith? Sufferings, if handled properly, will strengthen our faith. At the height of his despair, Job triumphantly declared, Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him (Job 13:15).Richard Wumbrand (1909-2001) and his wife Sabena described what they learnt amidst fourteen years of torture in Communist prisons: In the prison we unlearned Theology and learned Theos (God).Afflictions increase our appreciation of Gods grace. The Lord removed from Job his brothers, acquaintances, relatives, friends, guests, servants, wife and children. When human props are removed, we look solely to the Lord. Even when He hides Himself and we cannot see Him on the left or right, we will confidently say, We dont know, but He knows! (Job 23:8-10).When we suffer, we are able to truly understand the feelings and heartaches of other sufferers around us (2 Cor 1:4). Counselling has become a dry ministry today. Job said that counsellors without feeling are worthless physicians, miserable comforters and empty talkers (Job 13:4; 16:2; 21:34). Nowadays we even have computerized counselling! Our need is wounded healers! How wonderfully does the Lord Jesus who hung on the Cross care for our wounds! Do we have anyone who can comfort us like He does?Crises help to release the dormant spiritual powers within us. We will never know that we can run so fast until we see a cobra or a mad dog. Deep water experience is not to drown us, but to develop us. Our over-protective daddy would never allow me and my brother to go beyond shallow waters to bathe. But the dads of our peers freely took them to deep waters. The result is that I cannot swim, till this day. No millstone is necessary to sink me!!!Times of suffering become times of great revelations too. It was while patiently enduring suffering in a barren island that John received the glorious Revelation of things to come (Rev 1:9).
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:02:36 +0000
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