"Tried and True"

"For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion: in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me upon a rock." (Psalms 27:5) This is where the spiritual rubber meets the road, and where we truly come to understand what it means to lose the cares of this world; it's "in the time of trouble"! You can claim it, name it, or even try to proclaim it; but until you have been thrown into the eye of the hurricane, you do not know if you can maintain it! Not quite sure of what I am talking about? That's not all to surprising, considering the fallout ratio in our churches today! What that means, is the actual ratio of people who claim to stand upon the promises of God, and then as soon as trouble comes their way, they sling mud in the face of those that care about them; anything to make their troubles out to be the result of someone else, as to have an excuse why to be overwhelmed by something brought on by someone else. I am sorry to inform; but it really does not matter where our troubles come from; what matters is where we go to when they do come! God is more than able to protect us; more than that, He wants us to count on Him for His protection, and to make Him the one that we run to when we are afraid of shadows. That's really all we have to contend with here on this earth, is shadows; they really cannot destroy us, and neither can they have any affect on our spiritual lives; that is unless we let them, and there are plenty of people within our churches that do let them! Heck, I see people getting seriously bent out of shape, just because some one's shadow might have stolen a little bit of their sunlight; it might have only been for a brief moment, but does not matter to them, nor are they willing to forgive and look for peaceful solutions; and do you know why? It is because they are looking within them selves and not to the One who can submerge them in a Spirit of forgiveness! It really comes down to what we truly believe in our hearts, and if we are actually willing to act upon all that we truly believe; or are we going to react by wanting sympathy and revenge in our situation. It appears on the surface, that most are choosing the later for a solution; which is not a solution at all, but only something that will become a poison to their soul, and to their spiritual walk and testimony of the power of God's love and grace. What the heck am I getting at? Right? There are two things that need to matter more than any trouble that we find ourselves up against, or that might seem to be overwhelming us: it's that God's love and His grace is all that we need; those two things are the ticket to being someone that overcomes in times of trouble; and they are only going to be found by turning away from ourselves and surrendering unto God..."Behold, a King shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgement. And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken. The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. The vile person shall be no more liberal, nor the curl said to be bountiful. For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right. But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand." (Isaiah 32:1-8)