A torrent of blessing… IF you don’t give up

God spoke to me these words: “See what happened there; the attack was incessantly furious, wasn’t it? Yet, how did you respond? I know, but have you noticed yet? You did not give up, so I’m coming through for you… now watch!”

Of course, you know these moments, because you see them through the rear-view mirror of your own life. We all know those times when we could have reacted in a desperate overture of anger or despair that spoke only of a fearful and resonating hopelessness. 

Those times when we could have but didn’t.

As tsunamis and landslides and hurricanes and floods cannot be stopped, acts of God as the world insurance industry refers to them, God’s favour toward those who patiently persevere cannot be stopped. God’s will cannot be thwarted.

A torrent of blessing is coming… IF you don’t give up. IF in the circumstance of your exhaustion, bewilderment, grief, depression, etc, we don’t resign from the purposes of hope. 

So, knowing all will be set right, we don’t. We keep hoping onward beyond the torment, reminding ourselves of our resources of patience and quiet and honest strength.

We take that situation audaciously, as just the situation we were waiting for, as look at the enemy and say, “You’re on!” That’s right, it was no curse, because it was our opportunity. We don’t fight with the weapons of this world. We fight with the patient fortitude of a grace that is sufficient for us. The world looks on as if to say, “Are you for real? How do you slay this evil with a smile?”

It was what was hatched in the beginning as the conquest set before us.

To be crushed? No, it’s not about that, at all. That’s the reality that has beset us, for sure, but there’s more ahead, if only we can bear the present moment in gentle patience and perseverance.

This moment that has hit us, this reality of torment, precedes the very torrent of blessing that is coming forth toward us, that again, cannot be stopped. The moments ahead are not easy, but they will be worthwhile in the overall plan of our redemption.

We look not for reward, but we are assured that reward is coming. We are assured that a torrent of blessing is rushing toward us, just like that unstoppable tsunami, and once it sweeps in, we shall see from that Mountaintop. All was worth it.

This is our hope even as we prevail without a hope in this world.

See how the Kingdom is advancing and sweeping up the captives, carrying us to safety and security, converting our hardship and misery into sweet droplets of blessing, a vision building even as we wait and toil.

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