This devotional so perfectly captures my experiences in the last two weeks, a time where my soul is being drawn and wooed closer to Him, and my heart is being brought into deeper devotion with the One I was created to worship. Life hasn't been the same since. Change is scary, but it is in the divide between what is known and what is unknown that growth happens.
Uncharted territory
Forging a new path
From Streams in the Desert: Forging a new path
Go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. (2 Kings 4:4)
The widow and her two sons were to be alone with God. They were not dealing with the laws of nature, human government, the church or the priesthood. Nor were they even dealing with God’s great prophet, Elisha. They had to be isolated from everyone, separated from human reasoning, and removed from the natural tendencies to prejudge their circumstance. They were to be as if cast into the vast expanse of starry space, depending on God alone—in touch with the Source of miracles.
This is an ingredient in God’s plan of dealing with us. We are to enter a secret chamber of isolation in prayer and faith that is very fruitful. At certain times and places, God will build a mysterious wall around us. He will take away all the supports we customarily lean upon, and will remove our ordinary ways of doing things. God will close us off to something divine, completely new and unexpected, and that cannot be understood by examining our previous circumstances. We will be in a place where we do not know what is happening, where God is cutting the cloth of our lives by a new pattern, and thus where He causes us to look at Him.
Most Christians live a treadmill life—a life in which that can predict almost everything that will come their way. But the souls that God leads into unpredictable and special situations are isolated by Him. All they know is God is holding them and that He is dealing in their lives. Then their expectations come from Him alone.
Like this widow, we must be detached from outward things and attached inwardly to the Lord alone in order to see His wonders.
It is through he most difficult trials that God often brings the sweetest discoveries of Himself….”
I have tasted and I have seen the goodness of the Lord. Taste and see that the Lord is good, not by looking at the pain and the suffering in our lives with a blind eye, but with eyes fully open and aware of all that is going on, yet with a soul that still praises Him, for He alone is He. Apart from Him there is no Savior. He loves and He saves in order that we may truly live.
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