Charles Reynold Brown wrote in the early 1900's that believers leave "warm theories of the pulpit on Sunday and then on Monday morning go out into the world,the cold facts which face them. They rub against the unplaned side and are torn by the splinters. They are torn and bruised by the contact or, if happily they themselves escape for a time they painfully witness the discomfiture of their less fortunate fellows."
Lately I have been a painful witness for my friends in difficult jobs, difficult assignments with more than difficult people or managers. I have been there. My heart goes out to you.
It will not last forever. Hang in there, the months and years and seasons will and do turn. One day you will be turned loose again, like a pocket pulled inside out for change. You will exit, wrung out. The transition will be alarming because you will remember, like I do now...those of whom the author spoke. It is real what you are experiencing. And it will end.
There is a reason for this appointment. You will know it...later. Make a difference now while you can.
YOu do. Your presence helps another. Look around and see who is looking to you for God's strength in you.
"The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless His people with peace." Psam 29:11
"Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set the limits he cannot exceed" Job 14:5
Comments