The Power Walk: Lesson 2 1/12/2022
Daily Devotions: by Christina FarrisEcclesiastes 3:1-8 KJV
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Today I sharing from personal experience fully. Reason being we all get frustrate have those days of gloom and month of January is the worse month for depression, anxiety and so forth only because there is the lonely season after the hussle and bussel of the holiday season. Sometimes even the holiday season is just as depressing as January for some people. For me, I love Christmas no matter how it comes, because I try and hold to the true reason I celebrate which is Jesus Christ my Lord. January, I just try and enjoy seeing the snow. I want to declare I am happy almost all the time, and it is true, but what about them days when my eyes are giving me extra trouble and the world seems upside down and inside out, and nothing going the normal way. This AM was no exceptiong about 6:45 am I discovered the water was not working. No water to flush the toilet, bath, and to drink. Now it is a minor crisis, because it is not cold enough today for water to freeze though it be the right month for it too. It took a little while for the service people to get to my house, because they were just going to work and had to warm up all the equipment that was cold. As my husband sat and gave me dialog of what was taking so long, I became more frustrated. Not because it was taking so long, but perhaps, because I could not do a thing to change the situation. We all experience that frustration of not being able to change our circumstances. Yet needless to say, about hour later the job was done outside my house. As always they did an great job. However my frustration was not to be undid by the water, it also was irritating that a bill had not been paid that was on auto pay. I had to straighten that out. Then I realize all the frustration had nothing to do with no water this AM or auto pay, but with me. The frustration stimming from my eyes. And then I open the Bible and read there is a season for everything, and my thoughts are yeah but my changing vision there seems to be no end coming, and then I say woe as me, did I really mean that. God has ordained a day were my eyes will be healed in heaven, on earth or both. God has ordain that day when I either see or I don't see as well.
Did God not foretell his own Son beating and cross beyond our control, because it was God's will. Was it God's will for me to be hit by a train, to face disease, to face obstacle of loosing sight? Then I say Jesus still served his Father, because he had no will of his own, or his Father's will could not be changed. Jesus was still saying forgive them Father, they know not what they do on the cross as he was dying. What then, what on the other side of death, that even Christ said forgive on this side of eternity, before his death, to his Father. Either heaven is that good, or the fear of God is less then what our eternity would be like without God. What then?
We must examine the reason for the suffering to understand the reason of hope. If you never take a power walk you never understand the need for it on a busy day. God is the Father of all comfort as II Corinthians tells us, then it also tells my hardship is so we can share in the infliction of the world so they may know the comfort of God, then I have to ask, how does Paul know the writer of II Corinthians. The answer is simple, he had faced time of hardship and trouble. He had face times that he need to be strengthen, when his own flesh was weak. And like Christ he was willing to do what was necessary to win a soul for Jesus. Paul not like Christ, had not seen eternity. Only Jesus had seen heaven, and Paul had only seen what blinded him and that was the light of Jesus on the road of Damacus.
When Scripture says there is time for every season you can take it there is hope. There is a promise of something better. There is eternity with that hope or eternity without hope that is not without continual pain and hardship, which is far worse then a little pain going through life with God hear on earth. Time for everything and yet we want to grieve without the hope? No, we want to grieve with hope, and knowing there is hope. A time to be born and a time to die. A time of war/to kill and a time to heal. A time to weep, laugh, mourn and dance. All the bad stuff with hope of something better to come.
We need that power walk of hope, but also that power walk to know God's will, is teaching us or helping someone else to follow him, if we will only trust in him and rely on his comfort of his Spirit. No one does this well, but it is something that we learn to do as a believer. There time to rely on his comfort comes with knowledge of hope of a better tomorrow with God. A place of paradise without sorrow, pain, misery that is contained in our world today. A world without aggravation, depression, irritation and with hope of a day not so disasterous as the morning hours. That is my life. No it is yours too. Because every week a new first day of week arrives that you go back to work after a short break only to realize you wish you could go home and start over, and people will say that is a Monday for you. That is life. We can not change our presence beyond having hope of things getting better in a run of a day.
I knew laying in the hospital bed after my wreck, I was not going home that night, or even the next day until I could arise by myself and get out of bed. I knew when I was sick, I was not going home until I was well enough to leave. Doctors say you are dying and I said I am living. Strength comes to enable us to do what seems impossible, and hope comes when all hope seems to be gone for the believer.
is the season we are in, the reason for our depression, our loneliness or our aggravation, or is it because we refuse to get up and change the situation or allow God to change our situation for us. I am talking about needing strength, I know I was walking by the strength of God, and not my own strength at times in my life. Yet I know with setting my eyes on Jesus, I also seen the season I was in had a purpose and reason for it. When you having one those days, and you know it you and not the world around you, know there is hope. There is hope for change, and better outlook on life.
God truly is the God of all comfort, but he is also the one that enables us to rise up and walk, to move, to press on, when the world inside out and outside in. You are entitled to feel however you want today, because the season of victory lay ahead, when you know what you feel on this earth will be no more, but as a believer you have the eternal hope of paradise, the place of no more sorrow, pain, or injustice. With Christ before you, the storms of this world will only fade into season past and not continue in the present.
Where are you today? Hopefully walking in hope, but if not, you will get there once more, don't fret, it not worth the time it takes to worry about how you feeling, but what you going to do to change how you feel, or is it something time itself will heal. Get up put on your shoes and keep moving forward, don't have shoes, pop a wheelie if your in a wheel chair and keep on rolling, and if you only able to crawl, keep crawling for God's going to enable you to stand. Walk by God's Spirit knowing his Son walked this earth with knowing what heaven looked like and arose to see his Father, rose to know God's mercy, rose to know our pain. P.S. popping a wheelie, figuratively speaking and not necessarily physically unless you do it all the time. Dear Heavenly Father, you are the Father of all comfort, that comforts us still, enable us to walk the road of endless life, to serve, to honor you with the hope of today, I might grieve, feel aggravated, have pain, or whatever, but tomorrow there is hope that these things will not last, or remain because I serve a living Savior who is in the world today. Because you give us comfort in the storm and boost of strength to walk the road of faith. In Jesus precious name, Amen.
Continual Scripture Study: 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 KJV
3 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
4 Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
5 For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
6 And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
7 And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.
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