Reality: Some things we just have to live through and deal with.

In the tapestry of my life I can appreciate the Golden Threads of Godly intervention. These are highlighted and brought to greater clarity when contrasted with the circumstances that they were weaved into my world. Included in this tapestry of my life are the reds of bloodshed, blacks and blues of bruises borne. These are simply accent colors that make the bright and blessed colors that dominate this work of heart shine even brighter.

So often God allows us to live through some reality checks and hard times to appreciate the finer things in life. SOMETIMES it is LIFE. God did not do it. The Devil did not do it. You did not do it. Life happens, and it is not the most pleasant thing. As a man of faith in dealing with my life, I understand that reality is what it is until a supernatural intervention takes place. I had to travel today and in the early part of the morning as I was trying to get all of my things together to catch an early flight, this thought seemed to be like a broken record echoing in my soul.

Reality – Some things we just have to live through and deal with.

Over and over through out the day I have felt it impressed and re impressed upon my mind. The Bible is full of people that we are able to read about their lives in scriptures and chapters and rejoice with them. However they lived their lives in minutes, hours, days, years and decades before they ever really realized the hope that was deposited in their bosom.

In our impatient, hurry up society we feel that God has forsaken us if we have to live a few days or weeks or god forbid years in difficulty. I have seen it written across the faces of so many in the middle of hardship, an air and a sense of desperation and almost a threat hangs in the air, “If God does not do something fast, I am going to quit.” Many have been great encouragement to others in their time of stress, but when it comes time walk all their talks, it seems the passion of faith is gone.

If you find yourself dealing with the stark realities of life and God has not chose to do anything, YET, let me encourage you today. You could be living a testimony for others and they will find strength in your weakness, even more than if it worked out like you want it to.

God is with you,
Through the storm and through the rain, Each sorrow and every single pain, He has not left you nor forgotten your name, No matter where you are, Jesus Christ is still the same. In Victory and seeming defeat, God has not left his seat, Be not weary and do not faint, for it is in these trials he makes his saints.

Reality stinks sometimes.

“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, …..”

The truth of the Matter is, people die everyday in faith. Your not really living in faith until you are ready to die in it. What makes me any better than some other fine and honourable people that have had to die in faith not seeing what they hoped for.

We can sit around and whine, or we can learn how to just walk with God through it. No guarantee it will alleviate the situation, but there is peace in the midst of the storm.

Reality – Some things we just have to live through and deal with.

In Him, By Him, Through Him,

Scott Phillips
http://www.inbythroughhim.blogspot.com

originally written

Jan 21 2002