"Left Guessing"

"My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me." (Psalms 44:15) What is next? We really never know what God will do next, but we can be assured that He will bring us to the other side, that is His promise; although we tend to forget that sometimes. If God had told me what He was going to do before hand, then I might have been reluctant to go any further. We like to believe that God will not allow us to be tried by more than we can stand, but I really don't know if that is actually true when it comes to suffering and dealing with sickness; it might be true with temptations, because there is always an escape, but you don't get to escape some of life's tragedies. Cain used the expression, "My punishment is greater than I can bear", yet I counted at least six times in which God had given Cain an opportunity to repent for his hatred towards his brother, but he refused. So you see, God will always allow us a way to avoid being tempted into sin; and even after we sin, God allows a way to be delivered and forgiven; but sickness and death, is really not something that He has promised us we would not have to deal with in this life. As for the children of Israel, they were constantly having to be corrected for either not listening to God's instruction, or ignoring His commands; either way, they seemed to always be taken captive by either some other nation or by some other worldly seduction. I think that is kind of like things are with us, because when everything is going well in our lives, we tend to forget about God and focus upon enjoying life; but when things are going really bad, all of the sudden we start focusing upon God again, and soon enough, He is all that matters; so in that regard, then yes, maybe He has provided us a way of escape...

"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; who was faithful to Him that appointed Him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. For this Man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some man; but He that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of hope firm unto the end." (Hebrews 3:1-6)