Many Christians have become
discouraged and have slowly slipped
into doubt and silent frustration not
because they don’t love God but
simply because of the challenging
experiences and pain they have gone
through in life. We go through the
motions of church attendance,
worship and prayer because it’s
expected of us, however we have
searching questions within our
hearts.
We compare our practical life
experience with the Bible and
because it does not match up with
our “reality”, we come to the wrong
conclusion that God’s Word appears
to work for other people but not for
us personally.
There appears to be a gap between
the Scriptures and our daily
experience and we become like
Gideon who asked the Angel of the
Lord in Judges 6:13, “...O my lord, if
the Lord is with us, why then has all
this happened to us? And where are
all His miracles which our fathers told
us about, saying, ‘Did not the Lord
bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the
Lord has forsaken us and delivered us
into the hands of the Midianites.”
But I came with a word of
encouragement and a word of
wisdom to help - and it is this:
1.This journey of life is in a cycle of
seasons.
2.Seasons come and they also go -
they never remain indefinitely.
We are generally not surprised when
a particular season either summer or
winter sets in, we know and take it
for granted that it will soon pass.
3.Each season has its own
characteristics as well as blessings
and challenges associated with those
characteristics.
For example, the winter season has
its characteristics – it’s cold and
snowy and the challenge is that, we
need of necessity, to adapt to the
cold weather associated with winter
if we want to get through it and
overcome.
4.There are seasons of great grace
and provision and others when you
have to persevere and journey
through the “valley of the shadow of
death”.
5.The timing and passage of each
season depends on the specific
purpose for each person and also
how we submit and adapt to God’s
dealings with us during that season.
JASMINE'S PLACE
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