We live in a skin-deep world. Our culture glorifies clothing, fashion, makeup, tummy tucks, and nose jobs. There is nothing wrong with any of those, but in the end they are only cosmetic. Character and substance are shaped in crucible of adversity. Show me someone who lives a carefree life with no problems or trials or dark nights of the soul, and I’ll show you a shallow person.
-Ps. David Jeremiah, A Bend in the Road (Nashville: W, 2000), 21.
Are you in the edge of bankruptcy caused the global financial crisis?
Are you suffering a sickness?
You lost someone you love?
Hurting by a devastating relationship?
...whatever you can name it, I think it will better if we consider this message:
There are no miracles without messes. When God is going to do something wonderful, He begins with difficulty. If He is going to do something very wonderful, He begins with a mess.
-Dewey Cass
There are no miracles without previous messes. The need for a miracle is necessitated by the presence of an impossible situation, usually unbearable suffering.
Maybe you have been there. You were doing everything right. You were living as good and godly as you knew how. Yet suddenly, a heavy, sinister cloud darkened the sky. It blocked all hope from view. The situation seemed impossible. You found yourself helplessly adrift in a huge mess. The only way out was miracle.
When we experience the imminent threat of great pain and total loss, we always face a choice. We can run to God and trust Him OR turn from Him and run away.
“The battle is not yours but God’s . . . . You will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see the deliverance the LORD will give you . . .and the LORD will be with you.”
2 CHRONICLES 20:15, 17
“God, I can’t. You can. Please do.”
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Reference: Dave Earley, 21 Reasons Bad Things Happen to Good People, published by Barbour Publishing, Inc.
1 comments:
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