March 6
"Indeed
it was for my peace
that I had great
bitterness;
but you have lovingly
delivered my soul
from the pit of
corruption,
for you have cast all my
sins
behind your back."
Isaiah
38:17
The way things work in the economy of God is very
different from the way humans would try to accomplish things. There
probably isn't a counselor on earth who would prescribe bitterness as
a remedy for a person's predicament. But God does exactly that. His
understanding is enclothed in wisdom, and he knows the end from the
beginning. He knows exactly how to order things to reach a certain
goal, and sometimes suffering is the only way to get there.
One
day in my prayer time, the Lord said to me, "I have tamed you as a man tames a wild horse." That was a shocking statement
until I thought it over and looked at what I was when I came to him,
and what he had produced in me since. Yes, I was that "wild
horse," steeped in pride and self-will. The remedy was great
bitterness, and bitter it was. But it accomplished the purpose.
Are
you going through a hard time? Do you pray for your problem to go
away? Are you asking God to fix it? It may be that he has a specific
purpose for it, and if you see no answer to your prayers, you might
consider praying a different way.
Pray with me:
Father
God, I have prayed that you fix my problem, but there has been no
answer from you. It never occurred to me that this problem may be
something needed in my life. I repent of my resistance to your will. I trust you, and I know there is a very real purpose in all I experience. I surrender all to you. In Jesus's Name,
Amen.
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