Friday, May 19, 2017

Are You Down? Is Your Soul Weary? Our God Will Raise You Up!



Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? —Romans 8:35

{CHAMBERS} “God does not keep His child immune from trouble; He promises, “I will be with him in trouble…” (Psalm 91:15). It doesn’t matter how real or intense the adversities may be; nothing can ever separate him from his relationship to God. “In all these things we are more than conquerors…” (Romans 8:37). Paul was not referring here to imaginary things, but to things that are dangerously real. And he said we are “super-victors” in the midst of them, not because of our own ingenuity, nor because of our courage, but because none of them affects our essential relationship with God in Jesus Christ. […] “Shall tribulation…?” Tribulation is never a grand, highly welcomed event; but whatever it may be— whether exhausting, irritating, or simply causing some weakness— it is not able to “separate us from the love of Christ.” […] “Shall…distress…?” Can God’s love continue to hold fast, even when everyone and everything around us seems to be saying that His love is a lie, and that there is no such thing as justice? “Shall…famine…?” Can we not only believe in the love of God but also be “more than conquerors,” even while we are being starved?[…] Logic is silenced in the face of each of these things which come against him. Only one thing can account for it— the love of God in Christ Jesus.”

{ELGIN}  Every day I see saints who are faced with great difficulties in their lives.  I am not speaking of the consequences of sin, but the consequences of living in a corrupt and fallen world.  Many books have been written about why bad things happen to “good” people.  We value our natural life, but we should value our eternal life even more.  If we do not have a spiritual perspective on both, we will struggle when troubles come.  Josh Gorban sings a song, “You Raise Me Up”; “When I am down and oh my soul so weary, When troubles come and my heart burdened be, Then I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit a while with me, You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains, You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas, I am strong, when I am on your shoulders, You raise me up, to more than I can be.”

It is not I, but Christ in me that allows me to persevere in the face of great trials in my life.  (2 Corinthians 4:8-11) “We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;  always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.  For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.  When you are faced with the trials that are sure to come, you may be in one even now, don’t look inside for the strength to continue on.  Look up!

Don Moen, He Will Come And Save; “Say to those who are fearful hearted, Do not be afraid, The Lord your God Is strong with His mighty arms When you call on His name He will come and save. He will come and save you. Say to the weary one YOURE GOD WILL SURELY COME , He will come and save you. Lift up your eyes to Him You will arise again He will come and save you. Say to those who are broken hearted, Do not lose your faith. The Lord your God Is strong with His loving arms When you call on His name He will come and save  He will.  He is faithful but you must put your faith in Him. 

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