Pastor's Perspective |
May 2008
| How is your faithfulness unto the Lord?
An article in the daily devotional Encouraging Word caught my attention recently. A hundred years ago Germany’s exclusive textile mill had a special room dedicated to spinning the world’s finest lace. Each room was dark except for the light falling from a small window onto the weaver’s work. That is because lace is more beautiful when the weaver is in the darkness & his work is in the light.. Usually God’s purposes are revealed and His power displayed in our darkest experiences. When, like Gideon, you ask, “If the Lord is with (me), why has this happened?” When there seems to be no rhyme nor reason, God’s promise is, “I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD...who calls you by name.” (Isa.45:3) |
Anybody can be faithful in good times, but standing “by night in the house of the Lord” (Ps.134:1) takes real commitment. Hymn writer George Matheson wrote: “Will I remain in God’s house at night...love Him for who He is...know & desire not the gift but the Giver? When I can remain during the darkness of night and worship, I have accepted Him for Himself alone.” When the Israelites faced their greatest challenge, the Red Sea, the Bible says, “All that night the Lord drove the sea back.” (Ex. 14:21) Be encouraged, God is working even though you can’t see Him. After all, how can God give us “songs in the night” (Job 35:10) if the sun always shines? Jesus said in Matt. 10:27, “What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight.” It is in life’s dark places that God shares things which strengthen you and encourages those around you. May each of us be encouragers faithfully standing in the place He has set for us. Devotedly, |