New Conditions call for new decisions - Reawakenings cd 3 track 18

New conditions call for fresh decisions - and since we cannot urge others into situations we have not been prepared to face ourselves, grant us grace to meet each new challenge as it comes along, knowing that obedience must always precede understanding:– and that means being willing to lay aside our desire to know the outcome and to be in control before committing ourselves. Be not hasty in the way you judge and make your decisions: appearances can be misleading, and our measuring scales are far too limited to make a full and fair assessment. ”Judge not that you be not judged – or rather, judge generously, and think and hope the best.” Where you have raced on foot and have stumbled in safe country, and are finding the thickets of opposition and rejection a much harder place to thrive. (see Jer. 12:5-6) May the Lord speak clearly to revive your hopes. Use every tool to discern His will and to carve new paths through thorn-encrusted heaths, so that you will arrive neither ahead nor behind God’s own schedule: exactly where you ought to be when you are most needed there. Our flesh and heart may fail, but You are the strength of our inmost being and our portion forever. Jo Foote plays the accompanying recorder sonata for us by Handel.