Friday, April 4, 2014

Chariot or Juggernaut Car- What will it be?

Today - I wanted to share the devotional that I had today- in my "Streams in the Desert" devotional book. This goes so much with what I said about trying not to be depressed or discouraged because it makes us weaker and more likely to become victims of the adversary. I hope it blesses you as much as it blessed me. :O)
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Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he can see.” The Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw that the hill was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
2 Kings 6:17

This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and for one another, “Lord, open our eyes that we may see”; for the world all around us, as well as around the prophet, is full of God’s horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. And when our eyes are thus opened, we shall see in all events of life, whether great or small, whether joyful or sad, a “chariot” for our souls.
 
Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such; and, on the other hand, even the smallest trial may be a Juggernaut car to crush us into misery or despair if we consider it.
 
It lies with each of us to choose which they shall be. It all depends, not upon what these events are, but upon how we take them. If we lie down under them, and let them roll over us and crush us, they become Juggernaut cars, but if we climb up into them, as into a car of victory, and make them carry us triumphantly onward and upward, they become the chariots of God.
—Hannah Whitall Smith
 
The Lord cannot do much with a crushed soul, hence the adversary’s attempt to push the Lord’s people into despair and hopelessness over the condition of themselves, or of the church. It has often been said that a dispirited army goes forth to battle with the certainty of being beaten. We heard a missionary say recently that she had been invalided home purely because her spirit had fainted, with the consequence that her body sunk also. We need to understand more of these attacks of the enemy upon our spirits and how to resist them. If the enemy can dislodge us from our position, then he seeks to “wear us out” (Daniel 7:25) by a prolonged siege, so that at last we, out of sheer weakness, let go the cry of victory.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Lisa! What wonderful insights from this writer. I think it's absolutely true that we are constantly being pressured 'on every side' as St. Paul used to say. Why? Because worry and defeat do derail us. As you said, how can God use me if I have decided I can't do anything anyway?

    I hope this gave you a lot of peace. It's always best to keep out of those pits. And when I'm in one, I struggle to pull myself out with the Lord's grace.
    I hope you are having a good weekend my friend,
    Ceil

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