“If only we could sleep through the days when we feel overwhelmed and only have to wake up on the days when we are bubbling with joy.”
These were the thoughts I had the morning after my quiet time. Then the Spirit of the Lord said, “How would we know the strength of the Lord? How would we get to experience God’s goodness? How would we get to sit at His feet each day and simply soak in His presence? Because if we stray, we might end up broken and lying on the streets.”
“Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.” These are the lines of the famous hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness.
To know and experience God only when we are walking on silk cloth is a good thing. But to choose to walk with Him even when the road is blood-stained—that is a journey through which we cultivate strength in the secret place.
How has it been in the past few days, weeks, months, or years?
Are you currently walking on a silk path? Or maybe, just maybe, you have never really known what it means to walk on a silk path. Yet God’s promises for us are not consumed or lost in the trials of this world.
They are strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
Maybe recently, I’ve been caught in the web—the web where the enemy thinks his rhythm will become louder than God’s promises. But just because I am weak today does not change the fact that God has a package specially written for me:
“I have given you strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.”
And so, even if it might seem that our strength is weak, God is saying that our weakness can become a manifestation of the strength that is needed for today.
We can gather up the weakness and weariness that we feel, bring them to Jesus, lay them at His feet, and place a demand on the promise.
Oh Lord, I am in need of strength for today’s journey and the hope that tomorrow will be perfected in You.
Rest in this one conclusion of David:
“The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me.” Psalm 138:8
Stay Revived!
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