Situations…

Situations become opportunities for you to focus on the Lord’s maneuvering you out of a situation or at least showing you (hopefully) what the silver linings are. Simple to say, tough to be in.

Situations mean you have to not blow your top, but STEAM ahead, channeling the energy like a locomotive engine AND PULL a whole load too, not just the little engine that could, but the engine that DID, and trusted in God the whole way. Yes, there’s lots of venting and lost heat, because we are human and inefficient as are certain engines. Let us pray that we don’t warp witness and reduce our trust in how the Lord will get us where we need to be. He will…

A sermon recently reminded me of this too – more on that below. It reminded me to remember that our witness is faith in God’s plan. FAITH “Forwarding All Issues To Heaven” is an appropriate acrostic, which I found on a friend’s garden plaque. 

Other people learn from our patience. Others will want to know why we put our trust in the Lord and HOW. Hope is an action verb. Keep Hope. Walk by faith and not by sight. Demonstrate Jesus Grace and remember to ask God to re-apply it to yourself too, like sunscreen sunblock sin-screen after a burst of bubbling over. Turn the other cheek.

Let us pray for knowledge of maybe knowing who is watching our actions and at least that people, especially children, and potential children of God, are learning from us. Our bad steam can either make it sopping wet waste or our good steam might cook up their faith more. 

Our own faith is tested by the evil one who asks to sift us like sand, like with Peter. Perhaps a way to get Satan behind us is to build our tracks where Jesus has created for us a narrow gate and sure path. We pray to stay on track. Then full face and full faith steam ahead.

Our situations, it might cause us to warp our witness. So let us stay cool and collected and even sit in one of those little push cars on the track and let Jesus pump the energy into our momentum. Hot and bothered is normal, redirect it to NEW witness that if God got me through before, He will again. 

He will.

Let us find inspiration and information in the Lord, and even if our understanding is not yet possible, know God’s got this.

I am inspired to know and to connect situational processing to this gifted Holy Spirit scripture section of Jacob in Genesis 31 as a Bible lesson from a recent sermon about old testament Jacob having to wait out years and years of working for someone, Laban, who kept setting up new hoops to jump, new demands. Jacob asked for Rachel as his wife, it was 20 years before he could get back home. Pastor Joe in the online sermon link talked about NOT blowing your top, so that non-believers might have an opportunity to see faith and believe. Because Jacob had to jump through hoops for father-in-law Laban to get wife Rachel, and it rook over 20 years to leave that area to go back home. Jacob eventually blew off steam at Laban, and perhaps then Laban perceived Jacob not trusting God. Seeing our trust may help people like Laban who are lost worshipping false idols. 

So that’s so fitting here. In situations, we like Jacob might have to accept the need to put in time, even jumping hoops of others expectations, to show we trust that God’s got a plan, for sure, in all this…

It’s our witness and our way to follow His Way.

Amen. 

Online Sermon Link : SAM1397 https://share.google/0ThhpnVhs7NvkfUG4