TODAY'S LESSON: CHUTES AND LADDERS
FOR HIS ANGER ENDURETH BUT A MOMENT;
IN HIS FAVOUR IS LIFE:
WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT,
BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.
PSALM 30:5
IT'S BEEN SAID THAT LIFE IS LIKE A ROLLER COASTER.
UPS AND DOWNS, TWISTS AND TURNS.
AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, AMONGST ALL OF THE TURMOILS
GOD IS IN CONTROL.
GOD IS OUR REFUGE AND STRENGTH,
A VERY PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE.
PSALM 46:1
TIME AND TIME AGAIN THROUGHOUT SCRIPTURE
GOD MADE HIS PRESENCE KNOWN TO HIS PEOPLE
AND WHAT DID THEY DO?
HE CAME UNTO HIS OWN,
AND HIS OWN RECEIVED HIM NOT.
JOHN 1:11
WHAT A SHAME, BUT AREN'T WE LIKE THAT SOMETIMES?
I KNOW I AM.
MANY A TIME I'VE TRIED TO DO THINGS
IN MY OWN STRENGTH..
GUESS WHAT?
IT DIDN'T WORK!
THE KEY IS IN PHILIPPIANS 4:13
I CAN DO ALL THINGS
THROUGH CHRIST WHICH STRENGTHENETH ME.
AS THE SONG SAYS,
"WITHOUT HIM I COULD DO NOTHING,
WITHOUT HIM I'D SURELY FAIL..."
THE VERSE CONCLUDES WITH THIS:
"...LIKE A SHIP WITHOUT A SAIL."
WELL, A SHIP WITHOUT A SAIL HAS NO DIRECTION.
WE ARE THE SHIP AND GOD IS THE SAIL.
TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL THINE HEART;AND LEAN NOT UNTO THINE OWN UNDERSTANDING.
IN ALL THY WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM AND HE SHALL DIRECT THY PATHS.
PROVERBS 3: 5-6
SO, HOW DO WE BUILD LADDERS?
WELL, PSALM 118:8 IS A GOOD START.
IT IS BETTER TO TRUST IN THE LORD
THAN TO PUT CONFIDENCE IN MAN.
THEN TRY PSALM 119:11
THY WORD HAVE I HID IN MINE HEART,
THAT I MIGHT NOT SIN AGAINST THEE.
AFTERALL, IF YOU'RE GONNA PLAY THE GAME
SHOULDN'T YOU KNOW THE RULES?
OH, AND 1 MORE THING:
THOSE CHUTES THAT HIT US FROM TIME TO TIME..
IT'S IN THE VALLEYS WE GROW.
