Yesterday was a tough day for
me. As I dealt with difficult
circumstances revolving around health issues (the toughest issues to deal with,
if you ask me!) I felt inadvertently sinking into the quick sand of worry. I have always struggled with worry. People who know me well say that they don’t
worry because they know I’ll do it for them.
I’m not proud of it, but that’s what I do…I worry.
The flip side of my “condition”
is that I have seen and experienced first hand the Holy Spirit working in me
through the years in amazing ways. He
has walked with me through many fires and showed me that as long as I stick by Him, He will rescue me and deliver me unharmed. The Lord in His majesty has been patiently
teaching me that worry is just a sovereign waste of time and energy which could
be otherwise employed in a more efficient manner (let alone a huge sign of my
lack of faith!).
Through several trials that
range from infertility and family disunity to chronic illness of loved ones,
Our Heavenly Healer and Redeemer has carried me to the other side of anguish to
the calm shore of peace, time after time.
With love, He constantly reminds me that He is in control and that no
matter what; He will take care of me and my beloved today as He has done in the
past and will do in the future.
Though I have never heard the
audible voice of God, He speaks to me in His Word. Just like yesterday and again today, He
directs me to passages that contain exactly what I need to hear. That’s how I landed on Philippians 4: 4 where
Paul commands us to rejoice always, not just sometimes or when things are going
well and we feel happy. He says, under
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to “Rejoice in the Lord always.” And in case we missed it or didn’t understand
it, he repeats it again in the same verse:
“I will say it again, Rejoice!”
I will not let my circumstances cast a dark shadow over me. I will call on the power of He who lives in me to chase the darkness away and wipe the tears off my face. It is a difficult thing to do, particularly when immersed in the depths of a drowning sea of problems, worries, difficulties, negativity, despair, and fear; but it is not impossible if I relay on the Lord. If I depend on my own strength, yes, I am done, but I do not! I rest on the strength of He whose power is made perfect in my weakness. He grace IS, indeed sufficient for me. (2 Corinthians 12: 9)
I will have other days when I see the gathering of the dark clouds in the horizon heading toward me. It is inevitable. I will probably feel the sting of worry pock me like a needle, but I will not allow it to make me turn my face away from my Lord! Empowered by the Holy Spirit, I will let His loving hand guide me to a place of rest and quiet. He will take me to a place where I can pause and tune in to His Word and pray for a keen awareness of His presence. His presence will then carry me through all my trials and fires to the other side where Mercy waits for me with open arms.
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