A Page a Day
I haven't written much in the past few months. Too sick at times, too tired at others. Just when we had hoped months of illness and hospitalizations were behind us, things began to spiral downhill with me in December and I just knew things weren't right. January and February were worse! More hospitalizations and more procedures and more down than up.
These are the times when I begin to have the nagging in the back of my mind .... "Am I being punished for something?".
I'm at peace, I know 11 months of forceful putting one foot in front of the other have each been designed as part of the " when He has tried me, I shall Come forth as gold" "He knows the way that I take" Job 23:10.
One of the the big lessons I've learned from my Father in the last few months is a lesson of how He wants to commune with me.
I grew up and have spent much of my life basing my Christian walk on my own personal trinity: Wednesday night prayer meeting, Sunday morning service and a little bitty dose of daily "quiet time". A page a day keeps the Devil
Away!
In fact the little "quiet time" seems to be the theme for many. Don't get me wrong! I'm not putting down your daily page of "Jesus Calling". I'm just saying that maybe one of the lessons my Father has for me in my furnace time is for me to get away from my list of 3 and walk daily, hour by hour, moment by moment with him!
He wants fellowship with me!! He doesn't want my focus to be on my little read in the morn, while well and good. He wants my focus and dependence to be on Him.
That's why He had to strip it all away from me, why I still struggle from this eternal year of crisis after crisis. But.....through all the storms,
He beckons me to come to the calm. He wants the same from you!
He's shown me that on the outside things may be falling apart, health, future and finances may be tenuous, but inside I can maintain constant fellowship with the King over the Flood!
May you seek His face today
before you face any other!
