Thoughts for another day

March 28, 2012

Today's verse: 2 Cor. 5:7. For we walk by faith, not by sight. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

To read and imbibe the Word above is to say the least, extremely difficult not only in the normal things of life but also in everything concerning our spiritual journey.  There're moments when things are so much in disarray that one may tend to look up and just tell Him, the Maker of our destinies, that everything is unjust. 

Paul, who wrote this letter certainly abided by its spirit and always walked according to his faith in the Lord but as far as I'm concerned, I know I'm not Paul and my faith is not even a thousandth part of a mustard seed that it can muster courage in me and unflinching faith.  I, and a few people I know, are at a stage that's so painful, that mere endurance is sapping us of our energies and depending on God is becoming so difficult for we cannot see God and cannot even hear Him.  Honestly, it pleads my being to just give up on God and start living by my terms, for then, maybe by my own efforts, it may be possible to set things right atleast by a small degree.

I'm not writing to tell you we mustn't believe God beyond a point - which is what many say for they hold that God wants you to do your own thing and He is there to help - far from it,  as I always maintain that we must lean on God always.  For the theory of the world will never help us understand God's ways which seek that we surrender everything to Him and depend completely on Him.   I write this more for you and others to know what it means to go through a trial and hold on for someone said, 'the teacher is silent during the test', so I take it that God keeps His silence when you're under trial (Don't we recall Jesus' agonizing cry, 'My Lord, My Lord, why have You abandoned Me?'). But even then bruised all over, if we're yet able, by His Grace to keep faith, He will deliver and His deliverance is absolutely miraculous and sudden.  Remember Job and keep the faith.  Your time will come.  Amen.