Having been driven to the banks of
anxiety, my journey of late has been a worrying one, no matter how hard I have
tried to ignore my reality and looked to apply the Word of God to my situation.
It is one thing to say you believe the words of God but quite another to drink
from them. We have all heard that “we can lead a horse to water but you cannot
make it drink”. If it isn’t thirsty it’s never going to drink, even if there is
a long stretch ahead where the wells will be scarce. Unless we are as wise as the
camel we won’t withstand the journey. Lest we take in enough water to replenish
all of our organs the passage would become an impossible quest.
We will face those types of journeys
in our lifetimes. It is unavoidable if we are to reach the Promised Land and
there is no skirting the toughest tests of life. It is true that everyone’s
expedition must and will vary depending upon differing factors. A man cannot
take fire to his bosom and not be burned and yet men like Job were blameless
and look what God required from Him. So there are many differing influences
that determine a person’s flight, but one thing is certain, all will have to
travel the road to the Promised Land if we are to reach our final destination. Wisdom
drives us to the Word of God (the Bible) if we are to eventually arrive. It is
our lifeline in trying times and even our arch-enemy knows that and he will try
to infiltrate the Word just as he did way back in the beginning as he uses
wolves dressed as sheep to twist the truth of God’s Word. Therefore be diligent
and on guard, just because a person may offer you water in your time of need
does not mean that it hasn’t been doctored with poison. There must come a time
in a believer’s life where he will have to understand the difference and make
his stand.
Sadly for a long time now, even in my
lifetime I have seen the “money preacher” preying on the weak; “But
understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For
people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable,
slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous,
reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having
the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.” (2Timothy 3:1-5) - God will have the final say; praise His name now and forever more, Amen
and Amen!
If you have been lead to believe that Christians
should always be blessed, which we are, but not in the way the wolves present
it. They say a person should never be sick for if they are they lack faith or if
we suffer material want we also lack faith, this is not true in accordance of
God’s Word as he is preparing his people for a far greater existence, a life of
utopia and an eternity of son-ship where we will finally arrive. God the
Father, the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit and heaven with all its glory has been
reserved for the faithful. This means that our pilgrimage on earth will and
must be filled with many testing times to prepare us for what awaits. These
times will hone us into the image of our great Saviour, glorifying our great
God as it silences the enemy. Job’s is the ultimate example, obviously after
what our great Saviour needed to endure to set us apart. Therefore let us not
shirk the trials of life but rather let us embrace them as an opportunity to
grow in the grace and knowledge of our blessed Redeemer.
When the waters of life are on offer
let us be quick to drink from them as it will sustain us through our desert
expedition as we remember that there are many resting points along the way
where life will be blissful. So wherever we are along that journey let us
remember to hold fast onto the hem of our Saviours garment, the Word of God as
it will sustains us, come what may.
Signing off
Tyrone
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