One Ray Of Light Displaces The Darkness-15 September 2008
It's all I needed to regain my composure and reaffirm that my God is triumphant over my tough and often death-producing circumstances. It was a phone call from an angel of mercy that spoke the words I needed to hear and validate my pain by knowing she had suffered such impossible grief and survived. Her smile comes unimpeded and her softness through the phone line melted much angst in my barren evening. I know my Father in heaven was looking out after me and the conversation was filled with the scriptures that seemed to evade us and evoke emotional suffering at times. Our great God showed up to walk with us and change our hardened heart to resemble more of His and He used these difficult situations to sharpen our deepest sense of need for Him.
I awoke with a much lighter lode and hope broke through my dark chasm and lifted me to higher places than earth. I have been at this place way to long and realize that doubt and fear no longer have a hold on me. I can be in the deepest pit and know now without reservation that my God reigns.
He has a perfectly planned design for me and the chains of hell will not and have not prevailed. I believe I have seen the height of torment these past three years and I believe my Savior saved me. He showed me how I fail so greatly at presuming I know or understand Him and that His Word birthed life in lifeless places. He has guided me through this maze of powerlessness and shown Himself to be great. He has established a throne room in my heart that is permanently set and praise will erupt constantly.
I believe from the ashes He molded a more subtle, humble servant. I believe that pride has been depleted from my consciousness and that the Holy Spirit is now more capable of pointing out it's seedlings. In the desolate lonely place I found a changed life. I pray that what work needed to be done was done and that I would never have to return. I pray that my ears have been tuned into heavenly channels and that judgment of others and their difficulties will lead me to pray fervently for them. I pray that if a person should show them self to be thirsty or in need, that I would race to be the first one to offer a drink or provide help. I certainly can communicate with those experiencing pain and share God's faithfulness in my own.
I know that all though I have walked through much that I still don't know others grief or suffering and I will bend my ear to my Holy God who will offer me the words, the actions or the scriptures needed to give them a ray of light.
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