Turn on the radio, the TV, the blog sites, the facebook pages, the e-mails, the Christmas letters…just about any form of communication these days and you will hear some sort of pain. Some are grieving lost jobs or the probability of one. Some are nursing financial wounds of epic proportion. Some are craving the arms of a loved one. Some are despairing the look on their children’s faces this Christmas. Some, in our circles, are fretting the loss of income that could mean the close of their ministry.
Everywhere we look, and most certainly in our own lives, we are facing hardship and struggle and new mountains that we used to merely watch others climb. Some days feel insurmountable and that’s okay. Other days our resolve fires our engines to beat this thing with a big ‘ol stick…so there! J
But this morning, in my quiet time, I found some cool breath on a smarting flesh wound. I read (and adore) “Stream in the Desert” devotional book. If you don’t have it, click here to get it…seriously, buy it right now! And these words left a print of perspective in my life, so I hope they will do the same for you.
When Dr. Moon of Brighton, England was suddenly struck with blindness, he said, “Lord, I accept this ‘talent’ of blindness from you. Help me to use it for Your glory so that when You return, You may receive it ‘back with interest’ [Matt. 25:27]”. Then God enabled him to invent the Moon Alphabet for the blind, through which thousands of blind people were enabled to read the Word of God and thereby come to the glorious saving knowledge of Christ.
And another personal favorite that hangs on my fridge:
Two women looked through prison bars,
One saw mud,
The other saw stars. (author unknown)
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