October 12, 2007
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GETTING THE POINT
Welcome! Blessings!
Things that are termed pointed or pointy can have the most uncomfortable feel. But when it requires the use of pointed tools to be used in our lives to shape us, do we get the point? Do we get an understanding of the purpose that the God of all comfort has for allowing us to be subject to such uncomfortable circumstances? Keep in mind God’s expressed intentions in Jeremiah 29:11—to prosper you and not to harm you; to better you and not to damage you; to refine you and not to mar you; to perfect you and not to defect on you. For He has said that He will never leave you, fatherless, comfortless, regardless! He will complete the good work that He has begun. (Please read Psalm 138:8 & Philippians 1:6.)
Right now, I am getting the point! Yet as I reflect on my life, I see so many painful things that He used to shape my life beautifully. Shaping involves such things as chiseling, carving and other methods that would cause damage, had not the hands of the Creator been so skillful and the mind of the Creator been so knowledgeable and wise.
Not everyone gets the point. And those who don’t have lives that are so dull as a result. They become nothing more than ‘blunt’ objects, while they go about thinking themselves to be so sharp. Get the point—let God have His way with you!
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones. Isaiah 54:11&12
It seems that you’re down under and embedded in a pit;
The steepness indicates that it’s as far as you will get.
It looks completely hopeless as your life gets picked apart;
While all around each move just seems to cut you to your heart.
It seems that your existence grows more useless with each day;
And seems that to your very core, you’re being be chipped away.
But this is not a place that you can’t or won’t rise above;
God has you in His quarry as He chisels you in love.
He knows all that is needed in your life so you can fit—
Precisely in His building that’s so vast and intricate.
And none else has this knowledge or can with such awesome skill,
Make you fit and fitting for the purpose of His will.
In due time, He’ll exalt you with the same almighty hand;
That cut you out to be the stone of beauty that He’s planned!
So, do not be discouraged, don’t resent this place or sigh;
But set your heart, hopes, sights, affections, up with Christ on high.
And don’t attempt to settle in or start to look around,
As seeking for a place to fit in or for better ground.
For this is not the place where God’s intended you to stay;
But just for an appointed season as He has His way.
And soon enough, you’ll be complete and then be elevated;
And see your end result is better than anticipated.
Then you can tell how God took you from glory to new glory;
And worked His perfect will in you while you were in His quarry.
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we walk in them. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. Ephesians 2:10 & Philippians 2:13
Be Effectually Encouraged!
Pam
