The
chasm is so deep and wide that you are helpless to bridge it, and every
word you hold out over the impossible breach is blown away like a straw and
turned against you. The realization that it is totally beyond your ability and
seemingly beyond your grieving prayers, breaks your heart completely, and leaves
you totally at the mercy of Jesus. At that point, there is nowhere else to go
but there....at His feet. Could it be, maybe, that is exactly where God wants you?
Such a terrible division may be caused by Satan but
since "all things work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are the called according to his
purpose", God takes hold of it , twists it into a
useful form, and uses it for His own purpose for our good. So that, no
matter how huge, evil or unbearable the canyon is, God converts it to our good
and His Glory even as He converted the wicked Saul of Tarsus into the Apostle
Paul ... a persecutor of Christians and Christ into their greatest human
defender. Remember how Jesus said to him on the road to
Damascus, "Saul, Saul,
why persecutest thou me?" Acts 9:4. It was Christians whom Paul was persecuting, but Jesus takes our pain
and persecution personally as if it is He whom Saul was persecuting ... and if
fact, it was Christ in us that he hated. So it is Jesus, not us, who is the target of the devil's and the
world's hatred and attacks. That includes both you and all
of us, "who love God". We can be sure that Jesus is more moved by these things than we are
humanly capable of. He knows the entire extent, physically, mentally and
spiritually, of the effects, for eternity, of every wound we suffer in this
"Battle of The Ages" between good and evil, God and the Devil. For the
Christian, "all things work together for our good." But in the midst of the tears,
blood and carnage, it is hard to see, but it is true nevertheless. Believe it, and rest there, with Jesus. He understands ... but do you and I? RB
"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matt.11:28.
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for
you." 1 Peter 5:7
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