Beyond question, we will be pressed beyond our ability to endure in this present age. The confusion and heartache of these short days in this three-dimensional realm are unavoidable. The “communication” and relational issues, with us since Cain and the Tower of Babel, will always be one step, one illusion away. Our own “weak flesh” and personal failures, unrealized dreams, and self-deceptions are ever before us. Financial strain, physical illness, loneliness, employment uncertainty, fears related to education or children’s or parents well-being, or shelter or food—these are a part our existence here on earth, as they have been in some form or another since the dawn of man, in every nation and tribe worldwide.
SO, how should we view these often agonizing and throbbing, blinding difficulties?
Certainly, step back and understand that GOD IS SOVEREIGN and His Plans are to prosper, and not to harm us. Certainly, embrace that “ALL things work together for the Good” if we are focused on loving Him and His Purposes, and not our own. Of course, we need to rest is the Assurance that we are only here in these “situations” for a few days (“a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day” in Father’s Realm, in which we are “seated with Christ”). As a friend once said, after a brutal camping trip in icy rain and mud, “I figure I can do anything for two days.” : ) Can’t we? Can’t we lean back and appreciate the complex “weave” of interesting obstacles and tests and “circuit training” apparatus Jesus has put in front of us to Teach us a myriad of Lessons that we would never “grasp” from simply reading someone else’s story? FATHER is an AMAZING Teacher. His creativity in object lessons and tests and trials, all designed to Refine and strengthen and train, even in our failures, is astounding and encouraging beyond belief. He is SOVEREIGN. Hallelujah!
Yes, it is challenging at times, as our brother and fellow pilgrim Paul said, “beyond our ability to endure.” And yet, can’t we “do anything for a couple of days” if we really set our hearts to it, “no take-backs”? Even with the “king-sized” blunders and sins that destroy men and women who have not known our God, we can go forward, knowing He is REDEEMER and friend. He is Sovereignly advancing His own Cause, training the scrawny and puny to be men and women of Holy War, humbling the proud, and sheltering the helpless.
His Plan never WAS that you could “get” what you “want” out of life. : ) His Holy Call is that YOU GIVE YOUR LIFE AWAY FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE, with no expectations of any kind. That’s the basis and power of Christ (Anointed) Life. There’s nothing to “get”. There’s nothing to “look at” or “have”. There is no temple there, no beauty or majesty. The Lord God Almighty and the LAMB are our Temple. Our fulfillment and our satisfaction, our very great reward, are in HIM. Can we do that for “a couple of days” until it all gets clear for us as we see Him face to face? Can we give what we don’t “want” to give, for His sake alone? Can we focus and “stay the course” even when the challenges are “large”—from our limited perspective, at least?
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Just thought this reminder from another was so encouraging. No matter what storms may come, no matter what difficulties lay ahead as long as I am holding tight to JESUS and HE is leading me then I will make it home safe...
God bless
maryjane