Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Tuesday 8/11/09)

Even When I Don’t, He Does, Even When I Can’t, He Can…

1 Samuel 2:2-10 (New International Version)

² "There is no one holy like the LORD; there is no one besides you; there is no Rock like our God.³ "Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance,
for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed. ⁴ "The bows of the warriors are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength. ⁵ Those who were full hire themselves out for food, but those who were hungry hunger no more.
She who was barren has borne seven children, but she who has had many sons pines away. ⁶ "The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up. ⁷ The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts. ⁸ He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor. "For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them he has set the world. ⁹ He will guard the feet of his saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. "It is not by strength that one prevails; ¹⁰ those who oppose the LORD will be shattered. He will thunder against them from heaven;
the LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed."

As I listened to an author relay her testimony, of how God wanted her to stretch out in faith and quit her job and write full time. The thickness in the room was evident; everyone was waiting to hear the outcome of the inner struggle, to which she was in the midst of. Entering into a place where we have no earthly idea how something is going to get accomplished, or how it would even be remotely possible that God even in His Omnipotence wisdom could guide us through such a time. In her story as in many other stories, her obedience won out and she did what God was asking of her, but even in her obedience there was no instantaneous gratification, she still had to wait and trust and wait and trust some more. This reminds me of swinging at a piñata blind folded. You know it is there, you are trying to focus and get the direction right, but we feel as if we are swinging blindly, but not really.

In my life recently God has reminded me of some things that He has instructed me to do. I could not make heads or tails of them, and I have had no idea how they are going to work out, but I started the faith walk towards those tasks that He has so graciously entrusted me with. I still have no idea how many of these things will come to past, or where the resources will come from. In some cases I doubt the very ability that I have to accomplish these things. But one thing that I have had to come to realize, is that it is not for me to worry about the details, it is for me to understand the directive and obey. You see God is responsible for the hows; we are the vehicle by which these things are to come to pass. “Greater is He that is in us than He that is in the world.” God’s strength and His possibilities within us are limitless if only we can yield to His promises and His will. When we look at God’s promises we usually see them in the very confines of human existence, but it is when we remember we serve a God that even the winds and waves obey that we can even begin to embrace the possibilities that God says are facts in our lives.

Today as we are faced with things that we have no idea how they can work themselves out, or how we can accomplish all that is set before us, we must remember who we serve and His ability to do the very impossible. They say love is blind, it blocks anything negative. If we really love and trust God are we not blind to the impossible, and open to God’s possibilities. Start your book of possibilities today, with God out in front!