Maze runner
Saints of God, the power of God's Holy Spirit, giving you the Love of Christ, opens your understanding that other people are enduring hardships, to which you can speak life abundantly.
As I lay awake in bed the other day and had questions in my heart, not asking God, but being rhetorical to my own soul, I was unexpectedly surprised when God interrupted and answered me.
I couldn't help but think of the different things I've endured through life, and at times felt as though I was hanging on by a thread, barely able to function. I remember being told to get myself together in the late 1990s as a single mother, and I told the people I could barely make a peanut butter sandwich, much less get my life together. Only God could do it.
Grateful at the fact that God has gotten me through so much, I couldn't help but wonder why I have gone through so much and not had a "normal life."
God spoke to me and said that all of those things I endured in life, having overcome by the power of His Word and Holy Spirit, was to help others.
I'm reminded of Jesus speaking to Peter about the fact that satan was given permission to sift all of him like grain, but that He had already prayed for Peter, that when he returned he would strengthen the brethren. (See Luke 22:31-33)
How Peter must have felt being sifted, we can never know. However, I can only imagine that the person to which satan compared him, was Judas, tormenting Peter's mind that he might have been the son of perdition. That thought alone is terrifying, and I know that God's grace was sufficient. (See 2 Corinthians 12:9)
Jeremiah had to feel like this in Jeremiah 12, where the Lord encouraged him, that if he couldn’t run with footmen, how could the prophet run with horses? The horses represent the hard and difficult times we endure, through the strength of the Lord. The Amplified Classic translation compares it to a jungle maze, which the prophet would be led by God to get through.
Sometimes life can be a maze, but we have to help each other, by giving a word of encouragement, which will be prophecy, lifting and edifying the soul.
[But the Lord rebukes Jeremiah’s impatience, saying] If you have raced with men on foot and they have tired you out, then how can you compete with horses? And if [you take to flight] in a land of peace where you feel secure, then what will you do [when you tread the tangled maze of jungle haunted by lions] in the swelling and flooding of the Jordan? Jeremiah 12:5 AMPC
Saints, your life means so much to those whom you have no clue, as your continued pressing through each day to hang on one more day, hoping against hope, is a testimony of your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, which is a drink offering to the souls of mankind.
Never think your life doesn't matter; it does! Know that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, that God has thoughts to give you hope and a future, and not to harm you. As you seek Him with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, you will find Him, and be revived in the Eternal Life of Christ Jesus!
God bless!
Robin Kirby Gatto