Are you just surviving in this world? So often there are
times, or days, in our life when we feel we just have to get by or get through
the day, next few weeks, or period. As a history teacher I find it takes less
effort to focus on the past, but to really understand it we must make
connections to today.
I don’t think it is God’s desire for us to just get by, but
he understands our limitations so over and over in the Bible he offers us hope
and himself to hold on to when we feel like we might otherwise just lose it and
fall apart.
I think one of the reasons Jesus’ teachings were in story
form is because it is much less demanding to focus on someone else’s story than
our own. By listening to a story our defenses go down a little and we think
about the characters in the story, but then so often we find we connect to
someone or some event in the story, and realize we can learn something from it.
Once we begin to make connections to a story, we have to make
a choice. Do we just think to ourselves, “Oh, that was a nice little story?
Funny how it sounds so familiar.” and then walk away. Or we can say, “Wait a
second, what is this really saying!” and then try to take correction, or hope,
and apply it to our own life.
As we go through life’s many challenges, I hope you too are
comforted and refreshed by the fact that God’s source of strength is waiting
for us to grasp and hold close like a shield. He offers himself as both our
protector and our personal source for courage.
May you claim his shield and raise it high so that you, and
those around you, might breathe a little easier knowing we are not alone; if we
claim God’s promises fully, we may even find ourselves dancing for joy at the
end of the day or battle!
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