HE MAKES EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IN HIS TIME

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.  Romans 15:4

Moses lived to be 120 years old. Someone has divided up his life like this: For his first 40 years, Moses learned that he was everything. For his second 40 years, Moses learned that he was nothing. For his last 40 years, Moses learned that God is everything.

Spiritual ends are not achieved by human power alone. Yet that is what Moses tried to accomplish in murdering the Egyptian. Warren Wiersbe used to say, “Faith is living without scheming.” Then, Moses hid from Pharaoh. Later, he would write: "Be sure your sin will find you out." God determined to turn Moses into a servant, so He developed Moses into a useful servant through obscurity, and time. In the desert, God strips away all unnecessary things and opens the heart to listen.  Other things are not blocking you from listening to God.  I don't know what your desert might be, but anything that brings personal pain or hardship can be a desert experience of life.  Maybe it's losing your job; a boring thankless job; moving, etc. Time is not God's priority; holiness of character is.  God's desert faculty is obscurity, time, solitude and discomfort.  He uses obscurity to break our pride.  He uses time to cure our fears.  He uses solitude to take away bitterness and resentment; to help us see we have no rights.  We are His.  He uses discomfort to change our habits.

There are 3 ways you can react to the deserts of life:

1.    I don't need it!              Pride

2.    I'm tired of it!               Resentment

3.    I accept it.           Humility, lesson learned.

Will you choose #3? If you do, then you will experience how God makes everything beautiful in His time.

Ike Graham