2019, November – The ‘winds and rains’ of adversity test my foundation in God
Dear God,
This morning to begin with, I have been mentally challenged for no very good reason, and have sought you especially in the expectation of Your intervention and blessing, and as usual Your rescue, love and mercy has lifted me back close to You. I give You my true praise and exaltation, and for the first time this morning, I really notice the beautiful day in climate and soft, peaceful ambience, that I have to enjoy as Your gift; all day, if I so choose. Psalm 13: 5, 6 “But I have trusted in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because He has dealt bountifully with me.”
We teach our children about this parable in Matthew 7: 25-27 and they love to sing the little song “The rains came down and the floods came up……..”, but the lesson is there for me again today. Please my Father, teach me from the Holy Bible, so that I will be so founded upon Your word, that to go to it, think it and live it, is as natural as breathing. Then for me I will truly live and believe in absolute confidence; “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, now things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord,” Romans 8: 38, 39.
Jesus did not teach His parables and sayings to entertain the multitude of eager listeners, but that they may receive these words of life into their minds and incorporate them in a life saved from sin, for the kingdom of heaven. He wants for me to also allow His lessons to become an important part of a strong foundation of belief in Him; that He recognises and is part of. Matthew 7: 26, 27 “but everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.” For the house or person; pretentions do not avail, when like a building the tests come upon us: and ‘great was’ the ‘fall’.
Jesus, I believe in and accept You and all Your sayings, anew today.