Just a brief word for today.
This morning I serve at a funeral for a dear old saint who passed away this past Saturday evening. She was the kind of person whom one could not visit or see in church without walking away smiling. How she brightened a room with her zest for life and her growing faith!
Now she's gone home, much happier still.
This world is filled with sorrows--illness, family griefs, financial losses and crosses, deep loneliness, death, and taunting and rejection for one's faith in Jesus. Indeed, this morning I am called to care for the griefs of others having a good share of my own griefs.
But God lives. And in all that I have been called to endure myself, this is what I have found: trials are not so much about God testing us as they are about God proving Himself.
It's about God proving His sufficiency in our deficiency.
It's about God allowing us to find out that He Himself is our enough.
Have you discovered that yet?
Pastor Tim,
ReplyDeleteI must say the question you pose at the end of today's blog is profound. I must answer honestly and say that I have to keep learning this lesson over and over again. Each time I "relearn it", I grow a little more in faith and trust. God speaks loudly in providence....if we have ears to hear. We often look at trials as if they were some strange occurance that the evil one brought our way. In reality, I think that God shows us our lack of focus and trust in Him. There is rarely a trial or strange providence that isn't full of a clear message from our Heavenly Father....if we will but ask the question, "what can I learn from this?" "How can I improve my soul from this trial?" There are sometimes, trials that we never fully understand in this life. I know that we shall in the life to come.
I rejoice with our sister who now knows the answer to so many unanswered questions. Her hearing and health are now perfect, her mind and heart are now unhindered by sinful flesh. I rejoice with this prospect for me and look forward with renewed commitment to press on till we all achieve what our sister now has.
My Thoughts.......