November 22, 2017

You say so much is happening to you? Everyday new demands are placed on you? You are tired of being tired? You feel like giving up? You say that there is even fighting within yourself; that sometimes it is a fight just to stay saved; that there is just no more strength to hold on? You want to know why does it seem like God lets the enemy come in when you are at your lowest and your weakest? Why does God allow you to experience the greatest trial of your life when you have nothing – no strength – to face it with? Beloved, these things will continue to come until you learn without a shadow of a doubt that the battle is not yours but God’s. They will come and continue to come until you learn that you can do all things through Christ who is your strength. These things are going to continue to come until you learn to have way down in your soul the peace of God that passes all understanding. Paul in his darkest hour, a prisoner headed for Rome on board a ship, in the midst of a great storm at sea, will tell you that God will give you the strength you need to go through. Acts 27:20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.