Hi Bobby
I appreciate and value the kindness and goodness fruit of His Spirit showing through you again
It is
so difficult to go through the trials He prepares for all of us in order to bring us into His image and His Glory through sharing in His sufferings!
Just a few minutes ago I asked again for Mercy, Grace and Unmeritted favor because He has got it all and He is the lover of our souls. I saw how I am looking for stones to be made into bread instead of seeing that He is the bread and the life and there is no other satisfaction or joy to be recieved that can compare! I am not starving physically and am in no need but still I feel the pain of spiritual hunger and thirst. The desert sand of life is full of rocks to the carnal mind but the living water of life is full of joy and peace to the one lifted up for healing. We all need mercy grace and unmerited favour but sometimes I think that I should be first in line!...
that too is a lesson in trust, patience, hope and dependence on His Love for support and His understanding for assistance and His Spirit of council. We share the same boat all of us......and He who does not slumber and does not sleep is in the boat with us through our stormy seas of trial and tempests....The difficulty sometimes is that when the storm hits us emotionally, physically or spiritually, it feels like He is asleep by contrast to our hysteria and fear and pain. The truth is He is not and He is in control of EVERYTHING. Sometimes I wonder if the Disciples had not woken Jesus up as the strom hit their little boat, and if they had been tossed overborad and if the water had engulfed them all, and if Jesus has woken up by a wave smaking Him in the face....then the miracle of peace be still would have been even bigger with all restored back on board, or perhaps they would have been transported boat and all back to shore like Phillip was transported after he brought the message to the Ethiopian. Ref Acts 8.
What I am wondering is this. The bigger the trouble the bigger the miracle! Kind of makes me want to hang on to more touble and get to be last in line rather than first to wake up Jesus on my boat for just a Peace be Still miracle rather than a transported to another shore mircacle or a miracle like Sadrech, Meshech and Abed-Nego had!
Which carnal mind wants to go into the lions den and experience the lions jaws being shut!....We have to be able to go to the cross and be raised from the dead kind of miracle of faith we need to recieve from God alone. That is something to ask for isn't it?
He is coming again!
Peace to you all, and patience and endurance and hope in expectation of His return
Arcturus