Where are you?

Sometimes we end up in a situation that feels almost impossible to move on from. We can feel totally alone and discouraged. I think many people find themselves wondering how did I get here. We can feel that we did our best but a totally burnt out by life. I think many people have a similar experience and this writing is aimed specifically at those whose experience of life has led them to an understanding of God.
So its almost as if God has lost touch with us and somehow lost track of our lives. Its like everything has been stripped away. All our normal means of coping. I think the biggest temptation is to think that this is what life is really about and that it doesn’t get any better.

The bible says in Isaiah that even youths grow weary and faint (Isaiah 40) and it expresses the frustration that we feel when it seems that everything has failed.

COME OUTSIDE

There is a lot to be said for this. When we are in the place of utter discouragement we can tend to think that life is very small and its hard to do anything. There is a lot to be said for getting out into the fresh air. But it’s more than that. In Romans 1:20, its says that we are "without excuse" when it comes to believing that nature was created by God. There is often a pattern and a ‘stumbling block’, in our experience of life.

Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord... In the story of Gideon. Once again, in this favourite story of mine, it says that the people hid in caves because of the enemy attacks in their land... and so we find Gideon hiding what little he had. But the angel came to him and presented him with a choice. Will you vacate your cave or believe that you are loved by God and could once again be useful.

LISTEN

God said to Elijah in his cave... GO OUT AND STAND OUTSIDE and LISTEN
We know that God’s revelation came to him.
In this land in which we live and the boundaries of your life... WHAT WILL YOU CHOOSE?


Daniel Chuter

Push through (again)

“would you annul my judgement, would you condemn me that you may be justified, have you an arm like God’ (Job 40:7)

I disciplined you for your own good. I wanted to see which way you would go... self righteousness or my way.

As I have shown mercy so you must.

My servant Job was right in his understanding but wrong in his opinion of me... I allowed the hardship to come upon him but no ear has heard what I have planned in RESTORATION.

So too your understanding of my judgements is limited and distorted through your own experience. Job was surrounded by well meaning but short sighted people. They were wrong in their opinions. So too you have surrounded yourselves in the opinions of others. They only know part of the story.

I AM

Your distortion prevents you from fully seeing.

CAN I NOT DO ALL THINGS

When my people had a chance to enter the land, many of them only saw giants... What do you see. When David faced Goliath Saul’s armour didn’t fit him. Don’t allows others to put their stuff on you... what are you anointed for.

Job forgave his friends and prayed for them.

I addressed Job’s FEAR... fear can lead to the wrong choice. Job said..what I feared the most has happened. Let me heal this.

LET ME WASH ALL WHITE AND START AGAIN.

Push through!

Push through! There is gold in the rubble; diamonds in the rough.

The disciples said, “we have fished all night and caught nothing”; but jesus said, “go again”
The man that was born blind must have found it hard going and even stumbled when he arose and began to walk to the pool, as jesus commanded in John 9.

Don’t be afraid of their faces! But we say “I am only a child what can I do?”
You must speak what I tell you and go to where I tell you, says The Lord.

SEND YOUR WORD O’God... as the snow falls from heaven (Isaiah 55).

The Lord has heard the cries of His people. He has seen their burdens and oppression.  Who will go for me?

The wind picks up as we walk forward. The wind makes a way where there is no way. The wind is the wind of God’s judgement and His judgement is...

THE BLOOD OF JESUS WASHES WHITE AS SNOW.


Nb: The above was written 3rd Nov 2012. 
This was the scene out the window, in Somerset, the NEXT day:

Thank you Lord for illustrating the point.

Daniel Chuter