God Is Working Things Out

 

Saturday Catch-Up - 12th January 2019

Do I truly believe that 'My God is a God of Miracles'?

I'm writing this whilst I am actually feeling pretty low. I'm full of cold, and am therefore taking cough and cold remedies on a regular basis - well, as best I can so that it doesn't interact adversely from the other medications that I am on. I'm finding it a bit of a struggle to keep on going, at a time of the year when the workload is just starting to ramp up for me. And yet, I can't give in and rest up. And, I've got an overnight session at the Cold Weather Shelter tonight to look forward to. Oh, the joys!

In fact, I gave in to the cold on Thursday night, I simply couldn't fight it any more. I retreated into bed for the rest of the evening, weak as a kitten and racked with pain. And twelve hours later I woke and struggled to my feet on Friday morning for yet another round. As Captain America might say "I can do this all day..."

And yet - I still believe whole-heartedly that this is only a passing time of struggle. If I don't weaken, and don't give in, I can win through. I can make a difference. I truly believe we are 'more than conquerors' here (see below). Things will change, there will be a miracle just around the corner... Just keep on the right lines, keep faithful, keep believing...

So I keep going. I pick myself up, and struggle on for the extra mile. Pushing the boundaries as far as I can stretch them.

Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: old Japanese proverb

Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written:
   “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

I keep going. I look for the miracle just around the corner. Maybe tomorrow...

Miracles and Wonders

Psalm 77:14-19 New International Version - UK (NIVUK)

14 You are the God who performs miracles;
you display your power among the peoples.
15 With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
16 The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
17 The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth.
18 Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind,
your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked.
19 Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

Omnipotent

[om-nip-uh-tuhnt] adjective; almighty or infinite in power.

As part of my prayer time over the past few days I have started reflecting on the omnipotence of God. It's an issue that I am well aware of consciously, however unconsciously there is a tendency to restrict God's power. You don't pray for something, because, deep down, you think the situation is 'impossible'.

Nothing is impossible for God. I'm trying to remember this every day this week - particularly when I'm in a situation that is really pretty bad. I'm asking Him to go to work in my life, to sort some stuff out. To do a miracle or two.

I know He can.

Jeremiah 32:27
"I am the LORD, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?"

Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."

(all scripture verses from New International Version, ©2011)

A Miracle of Grace

I’m going to make my life into a melody,
I’m going to praise my Saviour all day long,
I’m going to make my life into a symphony,
A glorious symphony of song.

Chorus
For God will fill me with his power,
My pathway trace;
He’s going to make my life into a miracle,
A mighty miracle of grace.

extract from SASB 858 (Flora Larsson)