-- Oswald Chambers
In the moments when we feel like Jesus is waiting to answer...
In the moments when we feel like Jesus is refusing to answer...
In the moments when we feel like Jesus is not even wanting to answer...
In the moments when we feel like Jesus is lingering across the Jordan while we are dying in Bethany...
In those moments, it is entirely too "easy" to allow doubt to creep in and to allow ourselves to rely on those around us whom we can see and hear and touch instead of the One who said He would be with us always.
In those moments, we lose faith. Maybe not totally. But we lose faith.
In those moments, we place pressure on our loved ones to pull us up and help keep us above the torrential downpour of water that never seems to cease.
In those moments, we make choices and those choices don't just affect us and our faith-walk, but they affect the faith-walk of the people in whom we misplace our trust. We become "cruel and vindictive."
In those moments, we expect perfection from an imperfect being
In those moments, we expect imperfection from a Perfect Being.
In those moments, we forget that God is Sovereign, and that He will actually truly make a way where there seems to be no way.
In those moments, Jesus might linger, but we must not falter. Jesus might linger, but we must not falter!
In those moments, we must remember: "There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ."
In those moments, we must remember: "There is only one Being Who can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human heart, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ."
In those moments, we need to break free from our disillusions.
In those moments, we must never forget that, "It is for God's glory so that God's Son may be glorified through it."
