If we have right standing with God, we have everything, because nothing in life matters other than one being pleasing to his Maker. In verse 10: it says, “Finally, be strong in the Lord, and the Power of His Might.” We may be the most broken vessel on the face of the earth, but with the Lord’s keeping Power about us, and His Strength within us, we can live in victory through the darkest nights. Anyone can quit, and so many do, but to the one who holds on, there is such great reward. So hold on!
There are different times in my life when the Lord has permitted me to embrace my sense of deep poverty more than others, only to see His Grace bring about such riches in Him, as I could never had dreamed possible. There are many things which the Lord draws us away from, so that we can be drawn to Himself alone.
Hebrews 12: 5b – 6 + 9b – 10b – 11: says, “My son, do not think lightly or scorn to submit to the correction of the Lord, nor lose courage and give up and faint when you are reproved or corrected by Him; for the Lord corrects and disciplines everyone whom He loves, and He punishes, even scourges, every son whom He accepts and welcomes to His Heart and cherishes. Shall we not much rather (cheerfully) be subject to the Father of spirits, and (truly) live? He disciplines us for our good, that we may share in His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to the one who has been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.”
Habakkuk 3: 17 – 19: bears repeating, “Though the fig tree should not blossom, and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail, and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold, and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my Salvation. The Lord God is my strength, and He has made my feet like hinds‘ feet, and makes me walk on my high places.”
Malachi 4: 2: says, “But for you who fear My Name the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in His Wings; and you shall go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.”
Hebrews 11: 5: says, “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found because God took him up; for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to God.”
Dearest Holy Lord Jesus: thank You so much for the time of waiting upon You, and also, for when the waiting time is over. Thank You for the great care which You take with every intricate detail of our lives. Come by Your Holy Spirit, and give us Your staying Power, so that we may not lose out in the blessings that come to all those who hold on, and pray through. Glory to You alone!
