"This Too Will Pass"

"I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly." (Psalms 119:8)

 What a utterly weird day yesterday was; talk about feeling forsaken, almost everything was not right about everything! To tell whether or not God was speaking through all of that, I harding felt anything else but confusion and apathy on almost every aspect of my life. And to make matters worse, my wife was have difficulty which congestion; no sooner did I suction her, and she would need to be suctioned again. I was really starting to feel as though that day would never end. As crazy as this might seem, it did! You know that old saying, "What goes up must come down," well here is a little different angle to that theory or law: nothing goes up, without first going down! It is all about humility and surrender! We must surrender to the mighty hand of God, in every single area of our lives. Thinking that we can do anything, in any area differently, is not going to work out very well for us. This verse is pretty much all about that. We can work towards turning everything over to the Lord, and yet, we still will need to dig deeper, discovering that the hidden things are more difficult than those that are out in the open. Jesus gave an illustration of this in a parable about of the kernel of wheat; how that new life is never experienced without death happening first. We cannot serve two masters, one will win out over the other, but one requires surrender...

"Jesus replied, "Now the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his glory. I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat is planted in the soil and dies, it remains alone. But its death will produce many new kernels -a plentiful harvest of new lives. Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. Anyone who wants to be my disciple must follow me, because my servants must be where I am. And the Father will honor anyone who serves me. "Now my soul is deeply troubled. Should I pray, 'Father, save me from this hour'? But this is the very reason I came! Father bring glory to your name." Then a voice spoke from heaven, saying, "I have already brought glory to my name, and I will do so again."" (John 12:23-28) NLT