This too shall pass, isn't passing away quickly!!!
Navigating the Long Haul
Beloved Friend,
Are there times where you’ve felt like decking someone after telling them your dilemma and they reply with “this too shall pass”? It’s not that you do not know that “these” things actually pass, but then you would like for there to be a time frame, especially if it seems like you’ve tarried too long on that mountain and suffer done actually turn pomade…
Friend, how have you been staying sane in an insane world? As for me, I’ve just been holding tightly to God’s promises to me in His Word and loving up on Him in worship. I feel His overwhelming love more in the place of worship, and knowing I have a Father who sees and hears me brings great comfort to my soul and gives me strength to carry on. Also, it’s my birthday tomorrow, and there’s just been this well of gratitude deep within my soul. There are matching orders for this new season and I’m excited that you’ll be drinking from this new wine.
Please let me know what your coping mechanism for staying sane and true to yourself is. I’d really love to glean from your wealth of wisdom.
No matter how long you live on earth, it doesn’t take away the fact that you’re here for a short time, as time spent here on earth in comparison with eternity is nothing. You’re here for only a short time, and yet it seems to be full of ups and downs. As believers, we aren’t even spared and are expected to rejoice wherever we face trials or persecution. 1 Peter 4:16 even says “Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.”
In my previous letter, we looked at a phrase (‘Comparison is a thief of Joy’) commonly used by Believers, which isn’t biblical as there aren’t scriptures that explicitly say those words but it does have some form of truth in it. Here we are again, looking at another that’s commonly used: ‘This too shall pass’.
Friend, our suffering and diverse troubles don’t gladden Abba’s heart, but they are inevitable as long as we’re on this earth. We’re not called into a ministry of wishing away these sufferings or trials but to embrace them as they are necessary in shaping us to be who God wants us to be.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
I’m not here to glorify unnecessary suffering endured in a bid to get God to notice us and see how much we’re enduring for His sake. I’m not saying that whatever troubles you have going on won’t pass; they will.
Abba doesn’t want you to fret over these problems as they will eventually pass. What He wants to do in your life is greater than that which you’re passing through. Isn’t it wonderful that just a short time of distress can bring about God’s greatest blessing upon you and prepare you for greatness that hearts can’t even comprehend?
I know you’re currently not having it easy, but then nothing in life comes cheaply, talk more of blessings that transcends this realm. Just as you ask God for patience and He doesn’t suddenly bestow patience on you but puts you in situations that would cause you to learn patience; trust that whatever you’re passing through is to prune you and make new wine out of you.
Friend, could it be that “this isn’t passing away quickly” because you have refused to learn what God would have you learn? Could it be that you’re experiencing delay in that area cause you’re trying to cheat out of your pruning process and God won’t have that because you’ve been made for more and this “China” version of you just won’t cut it?
Finally, cast your cares upon the Lord for He cares for you. He alone has the blueprint for your life and will guide you on how to navigate this season that you’re in. By doing this, He will instruct your heart and if, perchance, you’re suffering from things demonically engineered, He that teaches your hands to war is on your side and you will definitely prevail through prayers.
Here’s your cue to share to that friend who’s currently going through a rough patch. Let them know Abba is mindful of them and that you also care.
Keep being a beacon of light, search for scriptures that speak to that situation that you’re in, meditate and speak the word, and I’ll see you this time next week by God’s grace.
With thoughts of kindness,
Abba’s Shofar.