My Journey 10/1 - 10/7/2010

God's insight to me:

Well, a week has passed in my journey and I am recovering from a broken heart. What I have found during this period of time is how awesome the Lord is. Of course I knew that but it is reaffirmed, time and time again, through times of hurting and emptiness. This morning as I was reading my devotionals, that I also love to share via the Internet, this one by J. C. Philpot spoke volumes about that. Mr. Philpot stated having everything as "faring well". I must admit for many of days that fit's me to the tee. But as Christians we do not escape some days of hardship and broken hearts. In this devotional as I look back to the previous week of hurting, I found the Lord blessing me with the love of family, friends and also my church family. He also poured out His heart to mine in poetry that I am blessed to write down for Him. Since I have published my last blog He has given me (16) heart felt poems. So I understand how as the author wrote though I was "faring ill", I was actually "faring well", Praise God!

God Is Good

How are you faring today,
does it appear not much good,
is coming your way?

Does it seem the harder you try,
things are just getting worse,
and you ask yourself why?

When in the day the sun is out,
do you only see clouds
and wonder what it is all about?

Well, fret not my friends and be reassured,
through all that is happening
there is a special reward.

God is still God, in the Heavens above,
He always makes good,
because of His love.

It is up to us to what we see,
with God there is always good,
for that’s the way it must be!

E. P. Shagott
10/7/2010

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10/7

Daily Portions
A devotional by J. C. Philpot

"Brethren, farewell." 2 Corinthians 13:11

To fare well, spiritually understood, is to have everything that God can make us happy in. All God's people will eventually fare well. They all stand complete in Christ: nothing can touch their eternal safety; for they are all complete in him, "without spot, or blemish, or any such thing." In this point of view, they must all in the end and for ever fare well.

But when we come to the matter of experience, we often find that those very times when God's people think they are faring ill, are the seasons when they are really faring well; and again, at other times, when they think they are faring well, then they are really faring ill. For instance, when their souls are bowed down with trouble, it often seems to them that they are faring ill. God's hand appears to be gone out against them: he has hidden his face from them; they can find no access to a throne of grace; they have no sweet testimonies from the Lord that the path in which he is leading them is one of his choosing, and that all things will end well with them. This they think is indeed faring ill, and yet perhaps they never fare better than when under these circumstances of trouble, sorrow, and affliction. These things wean them from the world. If their heart and affections were going out after idols, they instrumentally bring them back. If they were hewing out broken cisterns, they dash them all to pieces. If they were setting up, and bowing down to idols in the chambers of imagery, affliction and trouble smite them to pieces before their eyes, take away their gods, and leave them no refuge but the Lord God of hosts. If you can only look back, you will see that your greatest sweets have often sprung out of your greatest bitters, and the greatest blessings have flowed from the greatest miseries, and what at the time you thought your greatest sorrows: you will find that the brightest light has sprung up in the blackest darkness, and that the Lord never made himself so precious as at the time when you were sunk lowest, so as to be without human help, wisdom, or strength. So that when a child of God thinks he is faring very ill, because burdened with sorrows, temptations, and afflictions, he is never faring so well. The darkest clouds in due time will break, the most puzzling enigmas will sooner or later be unriddled by the blessed Spirit interpreting them, and the darkest providences cleared up; and we shall see that God is in them all, leading and guiding us "by the right way, that we may go to a city of habitation" (Psalm 107:7).