Circumstances seem to eat me up sometimes. I feel that if I'm not in complete control of my circumstances, than I am being used by them. As if circumstance had some will of its own, some hidden ulterior motive, and it needs to exploit me to fulfill it. Now the trick to not being exploited is figuring out what that motive is, but this is normally quite difficult. And finally, when you get to the end of this circumstance, you find out that you have, unknowingly, helped the motive along the whole time. I guess that's why I'm gonna just have to trust that God's will is that motive. He says that "...all things work together for good to them that love God..." (Romans 8:28) and I'm gonna have to hold on to that.
Secrets are also incredibly annoying at times, but only when you don't know what's going on...
Today I had the struggle of fighting circumstances and wondering why God has put me in the spot that I am in. I then read this in my Utmost For His Highest. I'm going to post it in the morning though. I suddenly got tired.
ReplyDeletelol it's officially tomorrow and i'm not in bed yet. I wanted to write this to you though cause I don't think i'll have time to tomorrow and I know you leave on sunday. I don't know if this will help what's happening in your life right now but it really encouraged me this morning. If it doesn't even apply to your blog please forgive me but somehow I applied it to this. Also it's just a good reading even if it doesn't apply.
ReplyDeleteAre you ready to be offered?
"I am already being poured out as a drink offering." 2 Tim iv 6
"I am ready to be offered." It is a transaction of will, not sentiment. Tell God youare ready to be offered; then let the consequences be what they may, there is no strand of complaint now, no matter what God chooses. God puts you through the crisis in private, no one person can help another. Externally the life may be the same; the difference is the will. Go through the crisis in will, ten when it comes externally there will be no thought of the cost. If you do not transact in will with God along this line, you will end in awakening sympathy for yourself.
"Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." The altar means fire-- burning and purification and insulation for one purpose only, the destruction of every affinity that God has not started and of every attachment that is not an attachment in God. You do not destroy it, God does; you bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar; and see that you do not give way to self-pity when the fire begins. After this way of fire, there is nothing that oppresses or depresses. When the crisis arises, you realize that things cannot touch you as they used to do. What is your way of fire?
Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be."
Hey sorry I didn't comment earlier, I just noticed the comments now.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for that, it does apply in a roundabout sort of way. So if I lay down everything that is not from Christ on the altar, and go about my life in a way that is willingful, than I can meet the circumstance without having to worry about whether I will be able to handle it or not. Because God has my life under His control. Wow, good stuff. Thanks again.