We don’t understand how the things in our life that seem so difficult are working together for our good, and for His good purposes.
Sometimes life just seems too hard and we ask why LORD? Why must I go through this?
We don’t see things from His perspective. We don’t know how each situation is being woven together, not only in our lives, but in the lives of others, to form something we could never imagine — An eternal weight of glory!
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
LORD, help us to trust You when we don’t understand, knowing that You love us, and You are doing something wonderful, not only in our lives, but in the lives of others. Something that will produce an eternal weight of glory!
When the worst happens in the life of Your children, the best is yet to be!
Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our LORD.
Does your life feel like the underside of a weaving, with a knotted mess of threads? Remember, in the Master’s hands He is making something beautiful! The dark threads ARE just as needful in His design!
“My life is but a weaving, between my God and me. I cannot choose the colors; He weaveth steadily.
Oft’ times He weaveth sorrow; and I in foolish pride; forget He sees the upper; and I the underside.
Not ’til the loom is silent; and the shuttles cease to fly; will God unroll the canvas; and reveal the reason why.
The dark threads are as needful; In the Weaver’s skillful hand; as the threads of gold and silver, in the pattern He has planned.”
Trust Him, no matter what you’re going through! Rejoice in Him!
Habakkuk 3:17-19
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds' feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places.
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Sitting still and waiting on the LORD is not easy for those used to instant gratification, instant answers, or those who feel they must do something!
The LORD tells His people this!
Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the LORD GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
He wanted His people to trust Him, not others; to return to walking with Him, but they wouldn’t listen!
Isaiah 30:1-3
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit,
God’s people cried out for a king; a man like the nations around them! They were seeking an earthly kingdom ruled by man instead of one ruled by the LORD God!
How do we know this? The prophet Samuel was told this by the LORD Himself!
1 Samuel 8:4-10
Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways:
Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us.
No matter what we face in the days ahead, we can be confident that the LORD will be with us, when we are with Him!
What strength and courage we should have knowing this truth!
Deuteronomy 31:6
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Beloved, walk ahead, without worry or fear! He goes before you, and He guards you from behind as well!
Isaiah 52:12
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward (rear guard).
John recorded the Words of Jesus below. Jesus knew we would need to be reminded of this very important truth as we walk through this life!
In this world, we will encounter tribulation, but He promises to be with us each step of the way, and reminds us here that He has overcome the world! Knowing this will give us peace, even through the darkest days we face!
John 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Do you know what time it is? Many years ago now the LORD impressed upon my heart that it was the eleventh hour!
I took that to mean that the hour that was upon us then, would shortly escalate into the time for all the events we read about in His Word that must happen shortly before Jesus returns.
Do you sense by watching events unfold that Jesus is right at the door of heaven waiting for His Father to give the order to go?
A pretense is a profession, rather than a real intention; it is making believe, or putting on a false show. Pretending!
A pretentious person would be one presenting an outward appearance that masks who they really are!
Jesus criticized the Pharisees for their pretentiousness!
Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.