This devotional pointed me to something that all human beings experience at some time in life: Adversity. The Bible is not silent on this subject and gives us many great and exceeding promises to comfort us in our time of dismay.
O LORD, when you favoured me, you made my mountain stand firm; but
when you hid your face, I was dismayed" (Ps 30:7).
It is often difficult to recognize the hand of God when we
are in the midst of adversity. We often feel God has hidden His face from us.
When the Lord takes us through deep valleys, there will be fruit from the deep
valley that we cannot see. You must press into Him with all you have during
this time.
God uses the deep valley to frame our lives to create a
change in our nature, not just a change in habits. The depth and width of our
valley is often an indicator of the level of calling and influence we will have
on others in the future. Our adversity is not just for us, but others who will
be in our future path of influence. This is not very comforting when you are in
the middle of the valley, but know this is a truth in the Kingdom.
It is often years later when we discover the wisdom of God
and why He intentionally led us through the dark valley. Life is often lived
forward, but understood backward. It is not until we are down the road and we
stand on the mountain looking back at through valley that we can appreciate the
terrain God has allowed us to scale and the spiritual deposits He has made in
our life while we were there. "He reveals the deep things of darkness and
brings deep shadows into the light" (Job 12:22).
When you begin to realize
this, you sit back and breathe a sigh of relief because you know that God was
in control all along. It didn't seem like it at the time, but He was.
Do you find yourself in the valley? Now is the time to fully
trust Him to guide you to higher ground.
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