Open Door: If nothing is happening.....

All matters have an explanation

All matters have an explanation, but the issues are so complex that you could never fully grasp their significance. God’s plan for each and every individual is so vast, so interwoven with so many lives, all that is past and present and with so many options and alternatives, that no computer in the universe could track the eternal dimensions of what happens in time.When tragic things happen to people because of the evil or fallen nature of this world, their family and friends have the choice of succumbing to bitterness or growing in grace. Ultimately, the issue is not what you can understand and explain even to yourself, but your capacity to believe in the sovereignty of our heavenly Father.

Remember not to measure events by your standards of justice, but leave the consequences to be tried by grace.

The Third MillenniumPaul Meier

God Works in the Dark

"The Lord caused the sea to go back ... all that night.''

In this verse there is a comforting message showing how God works in the dark. The real work of God for the children of Israel, was not when they awakened and found that they could get over the Red Sea; but it was ''all that night.''

So there may be a great working in your life when it all seems dark and you cannot see or trace, but yet God is working. Just as truly did He work ''all that night,'' as all that day. The next day simply manifested what God had done during the night. Is there anyone reading these lines who may have gotten to a place where it seems dark? You believe to see, but you are not seeing. In your life-progress there is not constant victory; the daily, undisturbed communion is not there, and all seems dark.

''The Lord caused the sea to go back . . . all that night.'' Do not forget that it was ''all that night.'' God works all the night, until the light comes. You may not see it, but all that ''night'' in your life, as you believe God. He works.

Edna Cowan

Thursday, April 17, 2008

If nothing is happening.....

If nothing is happening does that mean nothing is happening. No it doesn't. I know what is happening here. Well, some things anyway. I've been here before. I've actually read the back of this book. This transition is only different from the others in its details.

Yesterday I said I was feeling it. Feeling what????

That panicky feeling that so often has turned into fear and anger and depression. But this time is different in some significant ways because of the finishing (??what am I talking about - finishing??) touches that Father put on some of the work he has been doing in me for years.

The biggest thing he did was to convince me that despite whatever flowery words may have come out of my mouth about trusting him I didn't. No, I did not. And as I saw things with my eyes and reasoned with my brain I figured I had every reason not to. But one day when I just thought I would explode like a balloon with too much air in it he spoke a little sentence to me.

This is what he said: "You have equated my care of you with man's care of you". In that moment of his touching the lie in my heart with his truth so much began to make sense. A lifetime began to come into perspective. I deflated in about one second and just sort of stood there in the basement feeling a little dumbfounded. Isn't it amazing how he does that?

So I've been on a little journey for about two years +/- now of learning how to trust him. Making the choice with every challenge. And that's what's going on right now. If nothing else is happening - that is. I am choosing daily to do just that. Leaning on what I know from my experiences gained from multiple transitions. Like Frances Frangipane said - the battleground is in the mind.

And thanks, Trisha, for that phone call just now and the words about foundations being built and the time it takes and that they are not seen anyway.

So I believe a foundation for a life in the spirit is being built here. I cannot see it being built because it is spirit and spirit is not seen with man's eyes. But I will stand on what I know and I know that my God is a good and faithful Father who always intends good for our lives.

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