I have grown enough to realise this, that running into walls is part of life. And the bigger the walls, the more hopeless the situations of life can be. Large walls are sickness, lust, divorce, addiction all pop up around us & its seen impenetrable. Just like the walls at Jericho, these walls rarely stand alone. The walls of our lives are often accompanied by a deep pain, suffering & despair & all the while an army of hopelessly attacks us on every side. The question i ask myself is, if God loves us so much & He is so powerful, now how can He allow these walls to pop up around me. Now i dont pretend to have answers to any of the question, neither do i pretend to know how deep the sufferings has been, i simply want to suggest that maybe God does His works from seemingly hopeless situations. When i read the Bible, i read about people & characters all who faced seemingly hopeless situations. Infact, i cannot find a single person who walked faithfully with God without 1st facing a hopeless situation. Adam & Eve ruined paradise by inviting sin & death in the perfect worth-A HOPELESS CASE. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers for his pride & put in prison-A HOPELESS CASE. Moses was cornered on the Red sea with the most powerful army in the world-A HOPELESS CASE. Gideon was 300 against 300,000. David took the valley to face a blood thirsty giant. Esther was a woman trying to gain a word with her pride from a King. Jonah was stucked in a whale. Peter was a coward. Paul was imprisoned. The 5,000 had no food. Lazarus was dead. Timothy was too young. Abraham was too old. The youngest son was so stupid. The walls of Jericho was too strong, Jesus was humiliated, hung on the cross & buried in a Tomb, burying all hopes for the revolution that was hoped for, for thousand of years & now everybody was ready to close the book of His stories, THE END. GAME OVER.
But if there is one thing we've learnt from the scriptures is that we can never place a PERIOD where God has placed a COMMA because when all other options have been worn out, when circumstances couldnt get worse, when everything else has failed, get ready because that is exactly where God shows up because Joseph became second in command, the Red sea parted, Gideon won without lifting a weapon, Goliaths head was on a plate, Esther spoke & the King listened, Peter became a rock, Paul rejoiced, 12 baskets of food were left over, Lazarus was just kidding, Timothy goes to church, Abraham handles a family, the youngest son came home to a party, the walls of Jericho came & tumbled & down & Jesus Christ got up to resurrection to remove sin & death & the creation that was renounced many years ago was now restored for all time.
With God, what seems like an hopeless situation is not only Possible but Favourable because only God can turn a Mess into a Message, only God can turn a
Trial into a Triumph, a Test to a Testimony & a Victim to Victory. His power is made perfect in weakness. So let us rejoice in our Trials & hold on firmly to the hope we profess because He who promised IS faithful, WAS faithful & WILL ALWAYS BE faithful no matter how hopeless the situation is.
GOD BLESS US ALL
