In my early morning meditations I was contemplating the many trials and tribulations we humans go through in our lifetime. Pressures assail us on every side, bombarding us daily with the accurate precision of a marksman hitting the bullseye of his target.
As we live out our Christian walk with our Savior, we encounter many obstacles along the way that sabotage our most sincere efforts, leaving us to question our faith. To be sure, life is a mixed bag of successes and failures and no one is immune to their share of hardships and setbacks. How do we reconcile the two, making sense of our journey upon this earth?
There is much to be learned through nature, or the natural world, that is mirrored in the spiritual. Have you ever witnessed a tiny blade of grass or a flower emerge through a crack in concrete and marvel how something so tiny and delicate could possibly break through a barrier many times stronger than itself? The answer is that it will stop at nothing to get to the source of its' life, the light.
Yeshua (Jesus) reveals that he is the light of the world. Do we seek to walk in that light? Are we willing to allow him to make his abode with us and lead us in his paths (cycles) of righteousness. Are we willing to stay on course regardless of the obstacles that appear in our path? Will we scratch, claw, climb, push or crawl our way to the light? If so, there is a reward at the end of days for those who overcome.
1Pe 1:6-7 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1Pe 4:12-13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
If a delicate seedling can overcome great obstacles in order to fulfill its' intended purpose, how much more should we let nothing deter us from becoming all that we were created to become....the very Elect of God?
