“Do not rejoice over
me, O my enemy. Though I fall I will
rise; Though I dwell in darkness,
the Lord is a light for me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against Him, Until
He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out of the light, and I will see His righteousness”
(Micah 7 8-8).
Hey Gang: Her name
was Sheila and she had just gone through a very tough wilderness experience
where the alligators had nearly won and she wrote the following when she was at
the bottom, trying frantically to get up:
“I did not understand that God’s most precious gifts come in
boxes that make your hands bleed when you open them. Inside is what you have been looking for all
of your life. Only God can do that. Only
His love is as fierce and relentless as our deepest pain and unspoken fears….I
longed for rescue, He gave me relationship.
I wanted deliverance, He gave me companionship in the ruins.
Does that not sound reminiscent of the apostle Paul when he
wrote, “That I may know Him, and the
power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings”. (Phil. 3:10).
Oswald Chambers prayed “O Father, pierce a hole in the
darkness so that I can behold the face of God.”
A girl on the Oregon trail, after many hardships, as they
trucked to the West wrote, “I have known what it was to believe in God, but now
He came so near that I no longer simply believed in Him but knew His presence
there…that calm strength, that certainty of One near and all sufficient, hushed,
and cheered.”
“He came so near”. Words
that are echoed in our heart and soul by many of us who have walked the path of
pain.
We cry out, “Lord,
why do you allow bad things to happen to good people?” And he quietly speaks to the deep recesses of
our heart: “So that you can experience
my nearness to you and understand how much I love you. Just some encouragement as you begin this new
day in the mission field. Moses penned
these words of assurance for those who love the Lord their God with heart and soul:
“Be strong and courageous, do not be
afraid or tremble at them, for the Lord your God is the One who goes with
you. He will not fail you or forsake you”
(Deut. 31:6).
David wrote the following when he was fleeing for his life
from Absalom his son: “O Lord, how my
adversaries have increased! Many are
rising up against me. Many are saying of
my soul, there is no deliverance for him in God.” But You, O Lord, are a shield about me, My
glory, and the One who lifts my head. I
was crying to the Lord with my voice, and He answered me from His Holy Mountain,
Selah.
“You O Lord, are a
shield about me!” Hallelujah!!! “Come before the Lord with joyful singing.”
Blessings,
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