Grace In Darkness (Beautiful Truth!)
Every morning I love to read Mars Hill's devotional. Today's was especially meaningful to me, to us.
If I could sum up the past couple of years in all of it's lows in the trials it would be the title of todays devotional 'Grace in the Darkness' along with the words 'Lay me low, and keep me there' that is in the poem at the end of devotional.
Here is the paragraph that took my breath away in relating to grace in the darkness:
'Real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, swim through rivers, climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with knapsacks of sorrows on their backs...'
"Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer,
Trials bring me to His feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there."
-David Harsha
In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful truths we as Christ- followers can read, know with in our heart of hearts and live by.
When there is no 'light at the end of the tunnel' or when you just can not 'keep swimming' remember that these efforts are of ourselves, they keep us from looking at Him, the Grace in the darkness. I only speak from hard learned experience ;-)
'So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.' -2 Cor. 12:10
If I could sum up the past couple of years in all of it's lows in the trials it would be the title of todays devotional 'Grace in the Darkness' along with the words 'Lay me low, and keep me there' that is in the poem at the end of devotional.
Here is the paragraph that took my breath away in relating to grace in the darkness:
'Real growth in grace is the result of sanctified trials. God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His soldiers, not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and using them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, swim through rivers, climb mountains, and walk many a long mile with knapsacks of sorrows on their backs...'
"Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer,
Trials bring me to His feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there."
-David Harsha
In my opinion, this is one of the most beautiful truths we as Christ- followers can read, know with in our heart of hearts and live by.
When there is no 'light at the end of the tunnel' or when you just can not 'keep swimming' remember that these efforts are of ourselves, they keep us from looking at Him, the Grace in the darkness. I only speak from hard learned experience ;-)
'So I take pleasure in weaknesses, insults, catastrophes, persecutions, and in pressures, because of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.' -2 Cor. 12:10
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