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Dried Up Rivers (or, God’s Perfect Timing)

Posted in Difficulties, Elijah, God's supply, Patience, Trust, tagged on July 14, 2011| 1 Comment »

Elijah obeyed God’s orders … And sure enough, ravens brought him his meals, both breakfast and supper, and he drank from the brook. Eventually the brook dried up because of the drought. Then God spoke to him: “Get up and go to Zarephath..” – 1st Kings 17:5-8 (The Message)

When I read bible stories I try to imagine the experience.

Here is Elijah, a prophet, camping beside a river and trusting God for his provision. But the river starts to dry up because of the drought. Elijah is smart enough to know eventually there will be no water, yet he hears nothing from God.

Did he get nervous? It doesn’t say. It does say when the water ran out God had another place for him to go and that’s what I hold on to. It may look like things are dying up, and they may, but God always has another place, another task, another opportunity.

— fritz@langgang.com

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Wait!

Posted in Explanations, Trust, tagged on June 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there … and the cloud covered [the mount] six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses …” – Exodus 24:12-16

One thing noticed about God’s call to Moses – it involved a lot of waiting in the dark (cloud).

Our culture hates to wait — everything must be now and we don’t even consider maybe we have it wrong. God does things in his time and his own way (I think that is part of being God).

When you have prayed all you can about something and don’t know what else to do then it is time to quietly wait and expect God to get back to you when He determines the time is right.

— fritz@langgang.com

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A Scattered Path

Posted in Trust, tagged on April 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. – Psalm 139:3

Dr. James Strong (1822-1894) did us a great service with his Concordance, linking each word of the King James Bible to its Hebrew. Otherwise, I never would have known the following.

The Hebrew word translated “compassest” actually means “scatter” or “disperse” – a very different understanding than apparent from the old English.  Not only that, the word expresses intensive and intentional action. The Psalmist is acknowledging that God knows every scatter, thought, and circumstance – causing and protecting through it all.

Lesson: It sometimes seems like our path is scattered, haphazard, chaotic and we wonder why. This Psalm encourages us to not become frustrated and worried by the apparent chaos but to take one step at a time, listening, obeying, trusting the results to God.

Sound Bite: – God is in the scatter!

– fritz

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