We will never walk alone...Hallelujah!
I'm subscribed to Day by Day's devotional, and this came in my email today from them. May it give you encouragement to know that God has you exactly where He needs you, even if you don't understand any of His placement at all!
"We know the loneliness which the great missionary David Livingstone experienced while serving the Lord in Africa. We also remember how Martin Luther spent his time in loneliness in a fortress, where he used this time to translate the Bible into the German language. No room for bitterness, 'Lord, deliver me from this place so I can serve you better.' No, he served the Lord right where he was, despite the limitations.
And what about John Bunyan, confined to a prison for 10 years, where he wrote his famous book, The Pilgrim’s Progress?
Yes, we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. From the Bible and from church history. People who lived by faith, not by sight.
At the same time we realize that sometimes we can live by sight, and not recognize God’s presence. We feel like the two men on the road to Emmaus, who thought they were walking 'alone', while Jesus walked with them.
'...Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?' (Luke 24:32).
There are numerous examples from the Scriptures and from history which tell us that a Christian will never walk the road of faith alone. Whatever the circumstances may be, even if our feelings or perception dictate the contrary, the Lord will be with us, in us and for us. Hallelujah."
"We know the loneliness which the great missionary David Livingstone experienced while serving the Lord in Africa. We also remember how Martin Luther spent his time in loneliness in a fortress, where he used this time to translate the Bible into the German language. No room for bitterness, 'Lord, deliver me from this place so I can serve you better.' No, he served the Lord right where he was, despite the limitations.
And what about John Bunyan, confined to a prison for 10 years, where he wrote his famous book, The Pilgrim’s Progress?
Yes, we are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. From the Bible and from church history. People who lived by faith, not by sight.
At the same time we realize that sometimes we can live by sight, and not recognize God’s presence. We feel like the two men on the road to Emmaus, who thought they were walking 'alone', while Jesus walked with them.
'...Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?' (Luke 24:32).
There are numerous examples from the Scriptures and from history which tell us that a Christian will never walk the road of faith alone. Whatever the circumstances may be, even if our feelings or perception dictate the contrary, the Lord will be with us, in us and for us. Hallelujah."
"...and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." ~Matthew 28:20
posted by His Proverbs31 Sparrow at 4:02 PM
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