Life Between Brackets!
“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind…..” Luke 9:27.
Lord, you are teaching me that I must always live my life between brackets. No condition of my life is ever permanent. God brings about every condition; He also ends every one. There is a time and season for every part of our life. (Ecclesiastes 3). If I find myself in sorrow today, God will deliver me tomorrow as I turn to Him. God today blesses with victory, spiritual, and material wealth. But if we become prideful this stops the blessings of God.
Why does God give us changing, altering conditions. God does not want just one-track minds in His Kingdom. (I Timothy 6:17 KJV). Too much wealth leads us to “trust in uncertain riches. Too much sorrow leads us to despair. The combination is just right. The land to which the Israelites were traveling was a “land of hills and valleys”. (Deuteronomy 11:11). There cannot be hills without valleys nor can there be great victories without great battles.
That comforts me, Lord. The distressing situation that nags and embarrasses me today must give way to something better (or at least different). Patience says, “Wait, God will set it right.” The ecstasy of God’s blessings must be received with a sober thought; tomorrow it will be gone.
Now I see what your Word means when it says Moses “endured, as seeing the invisible” (Hebrews 11:27). It is in seeing the invisible One that keep me in perfect balance. I cannot endure seeing my brief, ever changing circumstances. I can endure only by looking to the One who ends those circumstances as He molds us. Lord, my vow is this; I will patiently look to the only constant and realty in my life-God Himself. Then I will understand what the psalmist said: The Lord will perfect (bring to completion) that which concerneth me” (Psalm 138:8 KJV).