When
you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers
of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you
will not be burned up; the flames will not
consume you.
—Isaiah
43:2 NLT
Through
any distress and loss that you face, He is with you. The waters will not rise
above the strength that only He can bring forth in your life. Oppression will
only strengthen and refine you. When you advance through these rivers of
difficulty, you will not drown. He will be your haven—your safe harbor.
Whatever your sorrow or pain, it does not last forever. Whatever your
heartbreak or despair, one day it will be over. You will not be burned up. You
will be refined as gold.
His
peace comes when you repair the altar that has been waiting far too long. It
has been broken in stages as His call to fall upon your knees has been
repeatedly ignored. Have you believed you had more pressing needs than spending
time with Him? Have you placed Him and His call on the back burner so often
that now He seems too far beyond your reach? His altar is a place of sacrifice
and one of obedience. It waits for you. It calls you. Oh, if only you had
fallen upon His altar each day! It would not have taken a moment of crisis for
you to realize your fragile state and that peace could be so elusive. But here
you are, and in this moment you realize what you have lost.
The altar waits for you. It has never grown tired of your delay.
The promise of His love and peace is still just as real. Fall upon your knees
in absolute surrender. The anguish you have felt will soon anticipate His
promise of joy to come. Grasp His promise that “weeping may last through the
night, but joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5b, NLT). Remember His strongest
children are those—who in the night of weeping after leaving their pain upon
His altar—confidently believe in the promise of joy in the morning. Come and
repair what has been broken.
-Devotional from Form Me,
Fire Me, Fill Me
© 2017 Lynn Lacher
www.lynnlacher.com
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