He won’t move me until it’s time to go to something better.
It’s reassuring on one hand and it’s frustrating on the other.
It’s frustrating when circumstances don’t appear to be improving and there’s a great desire to move on. As the environment sometimes becomes more hostile then there’s a sense that it’s just better to get up and leave without permission. It’s frustrating because it’s deliberately testing times. Testing whether that which is in you really reflects the character of Christ or just shows there are still stubborn stains of selfishness to be removed by the loving kindness of God.
it’s reassuring especially when there is that degree of trust, rest and peace in the character of God. When there is that memory activated that I am not my own and the one to whom I belong takes good care of me as I submit to His will. When the self wants to rise and flounce, that memory activated and the knowledge that His Spirit not just resides, but rules, then puts that little flounce in its place.
It’s also reassuring because that trust is founded on the intimate knowledge of the loving Father who will not do anything but good to His children. He knows the time and He knows the steps that will be taken and when they must be taken. His faithful nature and His desire to see His image reflected in us ensures that all the issues of life will be orchestrated to His pleasing. No setback will be wasted. No tear shed will trickle in vain. It’s that kind of reassurance that allows joy to fill the heart in the time of trouble.
It is this reassurance that puts things in perspective and keep us alert to when God instructs us to move and to do so in a way pleasing to Him.
His desired outcome is for the character of His Son to be established and expressed in us. To bring that about, His moves in our lives is with the aim to bring about better and better until that outcome is pronounced.
He won’t move me – He won’t move us – until it’s time to go to something better.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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