The Peephole

The radio is humming with “Jesus, Come Quickly”. I’m relief laughing. The man singing “Jesus, Come Quickly” doesn’t currently resonate with me. Forget come quickly. The past two days (make that the last couple weeks) I’ve learned there’s no need for pleading “Jesus, Come Quickly”. HE’S ALREADY HERE!!! Seriously, maybe critical life moments are confirmation that God doesn’t have to arrive. He never left.
So, why do we commonly, and falsely, think we have to implore God to drop everything and come help us? He’s already holding us in the palm of His hand, way before we even sense the world’s about ready to drop out of our feeble hands.
Second thought for today is anyone who doubts God exists, here’s proof He does. Just follow any Christian going through trials and tribulations. No, the proof is not that God always gives us, Christians, our desired end result. The proof is found in that we GET THROUGH our trials and tribulations. This would be impossible if all we have is our own human strength. Our struggles would break us, instead of increasing our faith and trust.
Only God has the power to render us endurance when we are under attack. I, and you, sure can’t do this; but what we can do is, in revival spirit, give God the credit and glory for our survival. The best way to dry our battle tears is to cry out acknowledging God as the strength under our collapsing weakness and the breath of power that carries us through all gale force winds.
The world is pretty grim right now, and I know so many of you are hurting deeply. That feeling of being all by yourself, isolated and ready to break is overwhelming; but may I share one more contemplation. If you are a Christian, you are not in a bleak, dark corner — no matter how black the night seems. You are behind a peephole. Darkness might engulf you, but there’s always a peephole through which God’s light is shining before you and leading. Darkness can not devour you, if your life is nourished by even just a peephole of God’s light and love.
Like the door peephole of our worldly houses, to see the light beyond a closed exit, you need to stand directly behind (not above, below or beside) the portal through which cloudless vision is revealed. During your dark moments, where are you standing? If you can’t see God’s peephole of light, relocate your stance and substance. Then, anchor yourself behind the soul peephole of light that penetrates all darkness. “… when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me.” Micah 7:8 (KJV)