I try to look for a lesson from God… something He might be
teaching me… in all of my situations.
This week it came when I was leaving the house in the
morning and sent my wife a text to let her know I love her and to tell her I
already missed her even though I had just been gone for a few minutes.
I got a quick message back, “Text message not sent.”
A little while later when I had a minute I tried calling…
but I couldn’t…
the phone had been turned off.
I hadn’t forgotten to pay the bill… I just couldn’t. It seems a season we are going through.
As I was driving the truck (delivering firewood to bring in
some cash) I wondered what the lesson could be.
“My line is open… the bill has been paid,” was what I felt
the Lord put on my heart.
What an amazing truth… that we can always talk to Our Father
in heaven. That no matter what our
circumstances… no matter where we are… He is always available.
His grace is amazing like that.
It is not above God to use whatever circumstance available
to bring us closer to Him.
“All those I love I
rebuke and chasten.”
This shouldn’t be read the way the world would have it… “All
those I love I judge and punish.”
No, not at all.
To rebuke and chasten means that God demonstrates His authority and power (rebukes) and draw close to in order to secure
(chasten).
More than anything we can want or have… God wants us.
And He’ll do what it takes to get us.
So I spent the rest of the day speaking with Him… because my
phone to everyone else was off.
Who know that a desert could exist in the cab of a box
truck?
I have to go… He is beeping in on the other line.
SDG
