"Oh, do not deliver the life of Your turtledove to the wild beast!
Do not forget the life of Your poor forever.
Have respect to the covenant;
For the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.
Oh, do not let the oppressed return ashamed!
Let the poor and needy praise Your name."
Psalm 74:19-21
I read this morning in my Streams In The Desert devotional; "There are no enemies to your growth in grace, or to your Christian work, that were not included in your Savior's victory." Think about that. God controls all things! He intentionally included those who would oppose or fight against you into His plan for your life.
I read in Come Away My Beloved; "The storm is not a thing to fear but rather to welcome. Ye shall learn to head into the wind with sheer delight as soon as ye have made the discovery that in the time of stress and strain, ye have the clearest revelations of myself.... ye need never fear as to whether I will be faithful to thee, for if I have never failed anyone else, why would I fail thee?"
God has a better view of this world than anyone of us. He created and designed all things masterfully! There should never be a question as to His motives, but He knows we are but dust and as such we blow around trying to stay grounded in His truths but are ever unable. HE IS THE ONE who keeps us stable in the midst of our ever changing and chaotic travels through this life. It is through His great mercy and love that we are even able to know Him as little as we do. For He says to Moses, I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. Romans 9:15-16
Who can know the mind of God? There are so many in this world! Even our best efforts to help or reach the lost are futile. But, God knows this and maybe even designed it to be so. We love to busy ourselves with important and big issues in His name. We can be so involved in the greater issues of the world that we lose touch with the seemingly more insignificant issues. Problems are problems whether life threatening or just nuisances in our everyday existence.
How many times have you been searching for something desperately only to find that it was right in front of you all the time. You spent so much time and energy looking for this thing high and low and got all worked up because it wasn't anywhere you were looking when all the while it was in the most obvious place. Maybe in our seeking to do and be apart of His will we need only look directly in front of us. Maybe we shouldn't deem a person's needs or problems as big or small but just as ways we can be of service.
Praise the Lord that He works all things together for good. Praise Him that He is always willing to be of service to us whether our problems are big or small. I love how our Savior Jesus Christ humbled Himself at the end of His amazing a miraculous ministry to wash His disciples feet. He had done some wondrous and mystifying works throughout His earthly ministry but He waited until after all these truly amazing feats to do perhaps the most mystifying work of all. He simply humbled Himself all the more and washed dirty feet. Lord how wonderful You are! What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? Romans 8:31 May we all learn this kind of humility!
Finally the closing quote from Come Away My Beloved; "I am the Ruler, and I will reign. Ye can resist Me, but it shall inevitably be to thine own destruction. Love Me and trust Me, and stay in a place of humility. As it is written, 'Humble thyself under the mighty hand of God, and He will raise thee up.' Mind you , He will do it. Ye need not raise yourself. You need only stay humble."
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