Trials are open doorways to the treasures of heaven.
Posted by appolus on April 27, 2024
The older I get within the Lord, the extra I see it’s not about solutions from God. Self seeks solutions. The instant issues of life presses in and we need to be by it. We wish acceptable options. But the place is God in our many graspings? What good is the glory gained on the mountaintops if it cannot be seen within the darkest valleys? Mustn’t our best need on the earth be that the valley is, to us, the mountaintop?
In the long run, the glory of God covers every little thing, because the waters cowl the ocean. Whether or not that sea rages or is tranquil, ought to we not lie down and sleep within the boat? We could stay awake within the lions den? We could not reward Him within the dungeon? The mountaintop expertise ought to solely serve to offer us the energy to replicate His glory within the valley. Didn’t the Lord come down from the glories of heaven? Did we not see Him glorify His Father within the deepest valley as He hung there nailed to a tree? We could not enter into His relaxation and stop from our works? Stop from our working back and forth.
Oftentimes the unhappiness of loss or trials turns into darkish clouds that obscure the solar. But above the clouds, above the mountain tops there’s a perpetually blue sky. Oftentimes we merely want a single ray of sunshine to penetrate the darkish clouds to remind us of this reality. And that ray reminds us of the glory that we reveled in and can sooner or later spend eternity in. A shaft of sunshine is what we should pray for after we are within the darkest reaches of the valley, and this mild shall lead us by it. Our lives are like a vapor and shortly sufficient we will stand in everlasting glory, however earlier than that we should discover the glory now.
He prepares a desk earlier than us within the presence of our enemies in order that we could, with Paul and Silas and each different saint who suffered unspeakable losses down by the ages, glorify God within the very midst of our conditions. Within the mild of this glory all loss is subsumed into Him and our spirits can really say that our everlasting need is to be present in Him. The highway dwelling to glory shall be a troublesome one for all who need to dwell Godly in Christ Jesus, however it will likely be a significant one.
See God’s glory and dwell. Solid your eyes unto the heavens and dwell. Solid your eyes to that everlasting horizon and dwell. There’s life in His glory and life extra considerable. Discover that now brothers and sisters, proper the place you might be, and the highway ahead will open up earlier than you, sooner or later at a time, certainly one step at a time. The difficulties of life will grow to be open doorways to the treasures of heaven. Search first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and the glory.
2Co 4:6 For God, who commanded the sunshine to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to offer the sunshine of the data of the glory of God within the face of Jesus Christ.
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