Lightens Up The Horizon

This is the other half of the last posting, entitled "This Long & Darkened Road", that I just happened to feel like posting right now, ta!

Whassup, bro's!

First of all let me just say a big thank you to all those who've been closest to me during this time where I've struggled to keep my eyes upon the prize I'm heading toward.

I've had up's and down's before now, but none have been like slipping like the sand dunes as you try to clamber up them. I feel like I'm in the throes of a yo-yo personality transplant, which is not helpful I know because I'm supposed to be building my life upon the Rock that is Jesus...

My life is, like everyone else's, subject to its up's and down's and I get that it is all about how I react to them, it is just that sometimes I forget that.

What's the dealio with that?

Sometimes it's like it's easier to look with my "natural" eyes and observe what's going on around me, but then it is at this point I have to remember that when God adds the "super-" to my "natural" vision and I start to see things as they could be.

Face it, the moment we stop looking and start seeing is when we really find out what is going on around us.

Can you walk down the street without paying attention to a single person you walk past?

Exactly!

Therefore it's with great interest I follow this up at some point because as I've admitted that sometimes my gaze shifts downward below the horizon.

What comfort? This is comfort: -

Is there any place I can go to avoid your Spirit? To be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon,You’d find me in a minute—you’re already there waiting! Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!” It’s a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you. Psalm 139:7-12

I can tell you this for free; it really doesn't matter what anyone thinks of me as I right these 'religious' posts, because it's my blog and it's my time I'm using up to write this. Yes I'm outspoken and yes I stick up for myself, but that's only making up for lost time for all the years as a kid where I wouldn't do that.

Anyways, as I was saying, the fact that God is already at the other end of my depression waiting for me to enter into the light of a new dawn and a new day gives me the unquenchable hope that Charles Swindoll talks about in his devotionals: -

How can we have an unquenchable hope that withstands even the worst onslaughts of despair? We rejoice our way through them! Paul points out three levels of rejoicing: we rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:2), we rejoice in our tribulations (5:3), and we rejoice in God (5:11). Notice that we don’t rejoice because of tribulations. We rejoice in the midst of them. We rejoice in spite of them because we know “that tribulation brings about perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope does not disappoint” (5:35). Think of it this way: you’re God’s personal project of character growth. That means you can rejoice even more because God never gives up on His project (Philippians 1:6). He always has His eye on you, cultivating your character through tribulations.

 Powerful words, don't you think?

It is a sad fact of life that for many their gaze has shifted below the horizon for so long now that you could tell them that tomorrow will be a brighter day and they would struggle to believe you.

I've been there, in fact right now in the midst of this situation I've had my moments where I thought that, though I'm supposed to believe, it is hard to see how a brighter day can come shining through.

Final Thought

Would you rather be in the hands of an expert or an amateur? I know the answer to that one and it's of course the former, because the inexperience of the latter can often lead to choices leading you down roads you are never meant to go down.

So next time that you feel like giving up, do me a favour and keep holding on, okay?

It will all come up good in the end, no matter what you are going through right now... God's right there whether you believe Him or not! ;)

Peace off!