I am promised that I may companion with the Lord all the days of my life. My part is to trust and obey: to think right and do right. Trusting is thinking right. Fear and doubt cannot be co-embraced to faith if God out-comes are to be the testimony of my life.
To become a Christian requires a miracle. Actually, all that exists required the miraculous. “By faith we understand” that the real world “was made by that which does not appear.”
The opposite views are that all is illusion: (Hinduism); that life is meaningless (Buddhism); or that pleasure – regardless of the ways it is achieved, deserves our full focus (Hedonism).
These concepts have been lived out, tested, found to end in the path of despair.
The Christian view can be learned from the Bible, miracle is the normal within all Biblical thought. That God is Love is also a normal Christian thought. That He seeks us individually too – “He leaves the ninety and nine to seek one who is strayed” – is bed-rock Christian thought.
That seeking Him, He will be found by us is everywhere Bible talk and that by amazing grace many have found Him, we sing in unison.
That I cannot “before” know the exact path He leads; but that He leads me such that I can know the way – the steps as they come – He assures me. “LO, I am with you always even to the end of the earth.” “I will never leave thee or forsake thee.” “I am a present help in time of trouble.” “I will come (to you) right early.”
Peter was my old fisher-friend when I lived on Lake Delevan. He would tell me “Go fish over there,” and I would take us elsewhere: “You’re the captain, “I would hear him mutter. But when the fish began filling our live-well, He would exclaim, “You’re the Captain!!!”
Jesus is the Captain of the little ship Blanford. “He leads us beside still waters.” He restores our souls.” “Our cup overflows.” “Surely goodness and mercy will follow us all the days of our lives.”
The miracle hand of Jesus is upon us, Soon we will view those hands, His eyes – Him! What might have seemed would be a tour of duty has been a tour of devotion which grows greater and greater as fulfillment approaches. If our burdens have grown greater, it is only a burden that others can come to know Him too.
Buddy