Timing and Trust

His Hands are big. He can handle what we can not.  

Trust simply means...letting HIM.

Our Heavenly Father "withholds" information from His child 

because its better in His Hands than ours.  He "holds - 

with" care, for the right time. In due season. While we wait, we are 

tested...will we trade trust for knowledge, like Thomas? 

Unless I see and touch? We are more ready to move, than be still 

and listen.We want more control, rather than to let Him lead. To 

Have knowledge, rather than to Hold Trust.

It is a glorious thing to get to know God in a new way in the inner chamber. It is something still greater and more glorious to know God as the all-sufficient One and to wait on His Spirit to open our hearts and minds wide to receive the great things, the new things which He really longs to bestow on those who wait for Him. 

~Andrew Murray

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion. ~Evelyn Underhill

His Refining

"Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction"

Be patient, suffering soul!

I hear thy cry

The trial fires may flow,

but I am nigh.

I see the silver,

and I will refine

Until My image 

shall upon it shine.

Fear not, for I am near,

thy help to be;

Greater than all thy pain,

My love for thee.

H.W.C.

God takes a thousand times more pains with us than the artist with his picture, by many touches of sorrow, and by many colors of circumstance, to bring man into the form which is the highest and noblest in His sight, if only we received His gifts and myrrh in the right spirit.  But when the cup is put away, and these feelings are stifled or unheeded, a greater injury is done to the soul than can ever be amended.  For no heart can conceived in what surpassing love God giveth us this myrrh; yet this which we ought to receive to our soul's good, we suffer to pass by us in our sleepy indifference, and nothing comes, of it.  Then we come and complain:  "Alas, Lord! I am so dry, and it is so dark within me!"  I tell thee, dear child, open thy heart to the pain, and it will do thee more good than if thou wert full of feeling and devoutness.  ~J. Tauler
Above taken from today's Daily Strength For Daily Needs

His Hidden Purpose

Peace was not His purpose

His instrument was pain

A regimented suffering

designed to increase strain

I tried to comprehend it

in vain to understand

the more I sought the truth to grasp

it slipped right through my hand

Loneliness and sorrow

became familiar friend

His answer to my fainting cry,

"Endure unto the end"

What was His aim I muttered

with hope and vision dim

I thought that my surrender

would make me more like Him

Then suddenly I saw it

a figure bruised and marred

beyond all recognition

His body ugly scarred

through tear filled eyes now gazing

the dawning light did see

His still voice broke the silence

"You asked to be like Me"

The Work of Waiting

There is some times an explainable deeper work done in the heart when time has said “wait.” 

 We are tried in what we wanted, or did not want and are then faced with our inability to do anything about it. A heart that wrestles with waiting does not understand fully the REST of God. 

 Maybe, we have tasted it, but have hardened our hearts when our Father wanted to lead us to a much FULLER land of His abundance. 

The Israelites, 

wanted Promise without pain. 

 They wanted riches without having to reign over giants. 

 We want, without waiting. 

 Good things come to those who wait.

Why? Because they are not allowing WANT to lead, and will not settle for anything less than what the Father desires.

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.” Is. 40:31

“ A good life makes a man wise according to God and gives him experience in many things, for the more humble he is and the more subject to God, the wiser and the more at peace he will be in all things.” 

~Thomas a Kempis