December 27-Crying Out, Resting In

The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon. “I will cry to God most high, to God who accomplishes all things for me.” —Psalm 57:2 We often stress about God’s purposes for us. Our human nature has us looking at our circumstances, worrying whether we’ll be able to accomplish them. But God is the potter, and we are the clay (Isaiah 45:9–10); he gave us our purpose from the beginning of time (Ephesians 2:10), and he is the one who will fulfill it as we seek him and cry out to him (Numbers 23:19; Philippians 1:6). The enemy wants us obsessing about whether we are doing what God wants with our gifts and lives. He wants us to agonize in fear and to stay focused on ourselves instead of on God. The truth is, we aren’t capable of accomplishing the Lord’s purpose in, through, or for ourselves. Moses couldn’t part the waters and rescue the Israelites from Pharoah. Gideon’s three–hundred men couldn’t have defeated the Midianites great army. Joshua and the Israelites couldn’t bring down Jericho’s wall.  But God accomplished his purposes in, through, and for each of them nonetheless because they cried out to him and obeyed where he led. When the Lord gives us something to do, he will make a way. Our job is to be obedient even when obedience has us standing up to insurmountable odds. What looks like defeat can be the Lord’s great victory. This doesn’t mean we will always live through that triumph. Each of us has our appointed time to die (Hebrews 9:27), and when that time comes, our death will accomplish his purpose as well and will be no great loss to us as we enter our eternal home without pain or sorrow. The post December 27-Crying Out, Resting In appeared first on C. E. White.