Wednesday, June 8, 2011

where to lean

Bill Withers' Lean on Me.

As of lately, I've been reading through 1-2 Chronicles, again. To be quite honest, it's an on-again off-again boring read for me. There's too many names butchered in my pronunciation and numbers thrown around.

Then IT hit me again.

One of the passages mentions King David facing incoming death from thousands of people from different lands. Terrifying, to say the least. He was faced with multitudes of folks whose only mission was to wipe him out. YET, he knew Who to lean on. Every victory was due to Him and King David's faith in leaning on Him.

Just lean on Him and you'll be good?

For a long time, I thought that's all I needed to do. It still is all that we need to do, but I've learned it is a certainty that it WILL BE HARD. It can get discouraging to lean on Him and still not see anything happen. It's led me to believe that this frustration is due to the want of instant gratification, but I'm realizing more and more He doesn't work like that for us.

Working it out in His own time, so that we when we're finished with the so-called "struggle" will then can we appreciate getting There, whatever/wherever There may be.

Psalm 22. Hebrews 13:5b.

He hasn't forgotten us.

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