Day 342: “I Have Been A Sojourner In A Foreign Land.”
Read: Exodus 2:11 - 23
In difficult times difficult people tend to think with great
difficulty. When times get genuinely tough some pretty wild and strange
things can happen to the gifted quick witted quicker thinking quickest
acting mind. Something happens and there just never seems to be any real
answer for why this takes place. The usual daily walk of "me,
myself and I" suddenly becomes face to face with the reality of the
brick wall you never paid any attention to before. Smack! All of a
sudden your life is flat on its backside. You look up with that "deer in
the head light look" A Revelation has struck! "I have been a sojourner
in a foreign land!"
"You are no longer in Kansas!" "This is no longer your parents home!" "The time has come to sow your own wild oats!" "Go West young man!" However it is for you, however you cliche' it, all of a sudden you wake up and discover
that it is now time to establish yourself in the world and too in God's
kingdom. What an adjustment! What a transition! What a
transformation! Off to College. Off to a new job in a new market. Off to
Military Basic Training. Relationships are falling apart, marriages are
in the painful throws of separation and divorce. Loved ones
are at great risk of dying in wars on foreign soil. Workers are being furloughed.
God never promised us a life of ease. We had trouble even before we believed, and it is entirely possible that the sum total of our trouble may exponentially increase
by many orders of magnitude. You have probably noticed that. It is not
an obscure fact about this world. The sudden or subtle arrival of trials
will absolutely complicate our lives and this pain, not being prejudice, touches each of us.
Sometimes that gets discouraging. I will sometimes get locked into the
notion that God is not "in Kansas anymore!" When we are muddling and
sojourning through the foreign lands of hardships, and more hardships
strikes, we often lose heart, losing our sight of God's heart.
It can feel incredibly overwhelming. But please do not lose heart. We were not redeemed by God from our sojourn in Egypt for a life of comfort. At
least not yet. The world and its troubles cannot crush the Holy Spirit
within you. It tries, but it can never be successful. It is simply
impossible for the temporary things of this life to overcome the
eternal things of God. For the finite to overcome the infinite, the
eternal or for the darkness to overcome, shroud the glory of God. When
trials suddenly or subtly strikes us at our weakest points, God does not
leave us stranded to sojourn in foreign lands. God's might shall lead
us through!
Let Us Pray: Psalm 121
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Read: Exodus 2:11 - 23
In difficult times difficult people tend to think with great difficulty. When times get genuinely tough some pretty wild and strange things can happen to the gifted quick witted quicker thinking quickest acting mind. Something happens and there just never seems to be any real answer for why this takes place. The usual daily walk of "me, myself and I" suddenly becomes face to face with the reality of the brick wall you never paid any attention to before. Smack! All of a sudden your life is flat on its backside. You look up with that "deer in the head light look" A Revelation has struck! "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land!"
"You are no longer in Kansas!" "This is no longer your parents home!" "The time has come to sow your own wild oats!" "Go West young man!" However it is for you, however you cliche' it, all of a sudden you wake up and discover that it is now time to establish yourself in the world and too in God's kingdom. What an adjustment! What a transition! What a transformation! Off to College. Off to a new job in a new market. Off to Military Basic Training. Relationships are falling apart, marriages are in the painful throws of separation and divorce. Loved ones
are at great risk of dying in wars on foreign soil. Workers are being furloughed.
God never promised us a life of ease. We had trouble even before we believed, and it is entirely possible that the sum total of our trouble may exponentially increase by many orders of magnitude. You have probably noticed that. It is not an obscure fact about this world. The sudden or subtle arrival of trials will absolutely complicate our lives and this pain, not being prejudice, touches each of us. Sometimes that gets discouraging. I will sometimes get locked into the notion that God is not "in Kansas anymore!" When we are muddling and sojourning through the foreign lands of hardships, and more hardships strikes, we often lose heart, losing our sight of God's heart.
It can feel incredibly overwhelming. But please do not lose heart. We were not redeemed by God from our sojourn in Egypt for a life of comfort. At least not yet. The world and its troubles cannot crush the Holy Spirit within you. It tries, but it can never be successful. It is simply impossible for the temporary things of this life to overcome the eternal things of God. For the finite to overcome the infinite, the eternal or for the darkness to overcome, shroud the glory of God. When trials suddenly or subtly strikes us at our weakest points, God does not leave us stranded to sojourn in foreign lands. God's might shall lead us through!
Let Us Pray: Psalm 121
http://www.youtube.com/
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