Fear Not When All Feels Lost
Learn and accept
that God is in control, that He is sovereign. Embrace the fact that what you
are going through is divinely guided by a heavenly Father who loves you too
much to do anything cruel to you. Remember, God exists in a realm beyond our
comprehension. He’s not some crusty old man with a long beard blowing wind out
of the north. God is incomprehensibly great. He’s omniscient. He’s omnipotent.
He’s omnipresent. He’s eternal. He’s ageless and timeless. He’s good. He’s
gracious. He’s loving and just. And He’s always right … even when you feel like
what happened to you was all wrong.
by Chuck
Swindoll
God is in charge. He is over everything. He
is sovereign.
He rules graciously and powerfully from
Heaven in perfect wisdom, love, and grace (see Psalm 11).
Whatever you are facing, adverse or
delightful, your life is all about God … His will … His way.
But we easily lose our theological moorings
when we insist on living horizontally.
When we do, the winds of adversity
eventually cause us to drift from what we truly believe.
How much better to choose a response of
faith that submits to God’s sovereign will, yielding to His gracious purposes
in both giving and taking away those things and people we hold dear.
After all, that’s His sovereign right. God
doesn’t exist to make us healthy and happy. He exists to glorify His name.
We are the channel through which that glory
flows. T. S. Eliot puts it this way:
To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe
that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one
will continue to exist in the best possible substitute for this world, or that
after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all
the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is
the greatest reality here and now.
I suggest you reread that profound
statement. The life of faith is not what you purchase or produce.
Faith consists in knowing your heavenly
Father is at work for His glory and for your good, to mold you into the image
of His Son, Jesus. That’s what life is about!
If it takes the loss of everything to gain
that vertical perspective, then embrace the loss.
If it takes your broken dreams and an
abandonment of what you had counted on all your life to realign your life
vertically, then abandon it.
It is all about God, who gives and takes
away.
During his extended grief, Job realized
that the most important thing in life exists in the supernatural, not the
natural – in the invisible, not the visible.
That’s the power of Biblical theology. It
keeps us thinking rightly about God and ourselves, especially in times of
trouble.
Real living is eternal living. Real
perspective is an understanding of what isn’t seen. Real maturity is guiding
one’s life according to the intangibles.
Consider the apostle Paul’s words from Colossians
3:
Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set
your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor
at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.
For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And
when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share
in all his glory
(Colossians
3:1-4).
That’s a truckload of great theology! And
it represents the foundation for a vertical perspective.
If you learn nothing else in your years
walking with the Lord, learn and accept that God is in control, that He is
sovereign.
Embrace the fact that what you are going
through is divinely guided by a heavenly Father who loves you too much to do anything
cruel to you.
Remember, God exists in a realm beyond our
comprehension. He’s not some crusty old man with a long beard blowing wind out
of the north.
God is incomprehensibly great. He’s
omniscient. He’s omnipotent. He’s omnipresent. He’s eternal.
He’s ageless and timeless. He’s good. He’s gracious. He’s loving and just. And He’s always right … even when you feel like what happened to you was all wrong.
Chuck Swindoll, founder of Insight
for Living, is an evangelical pastor, prolific author, and Chancellor of Dallas
Theological Seminary. Learn more at Insight.org
https://inspiration.org/christian-articles/fear-not-when-all-feels-lost/
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