Psalm 42:5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
I saw this Bit a couple days too late, because that is exactly the position I found myself in last Sunday: My spirit was at an unexplainably low ebb. I could not understand why, since nothing had gone wrong to cause such a drastic downward spiral. In fact, some things had gone even better than I expected. But for that whole day I fought that malaise in my spirit. I read all the Bible verses and stuff that usually strengthen me, hn! But nothing worked. I even had trouble deciding on a Bit. And when I finally thought I’d done so and began writing it, I changed my mind in mid stream. I kept on asking the Most High for a reason, but you know how He operates. It was not until sometime in the late afternoon, when I decided to have a nap, that I got some sort of an answer. He insinuated that it was just one of those things, one of those things we all have to go through. How could I encourage people with a downcast, hurting spirit, if I had not experienced it myself? Hn! Obviously I gave a low, mirthless chuckle at that explanation, and though not at all thrilled by the situation, continued fighting the good fight, until later that night I finally wrote a Scrip-bit I thought was pretty good. The one about J.C teaching in the temple, saying that the Father had not left Him alone, but had sent the Holy Spirit to help Him. Hopefully it was that same Holy Spirit, that fabulous Helper, that was then working in me, to bring me out of the unholy funk I’d been in. That made me feel somewhat better, sort of restored my confidence, and I finally perked back up. Since then, I’ve been pretty good. Just goes to show once again, His mysterious ways of working, although I was not particularly thrilled about that one. Friends, there’s nothing as deflating and miserable as a disquieted spirit, especially when there’s no apparent reason for it. So whenever that happens, and it happens to all of us at some time or another, just remember that the Lord is still in control, and though you may not be able to see or understand His reasoning, there’s some hidden purpose, and if you’ll just hang in and continue to fight the good fight, sooner or later your spirits will be restored to even greater heights. Much LOVE and plenty perseverance… that’s the only way we’ll succeed.
I saw this Bit a couple days too late, because that is exactly the position I found myself in last Sunday: My spirit was at an unexplainably low ebb. I could not understand why, since nothing had gone wrong to cause such a drastic downward spiral. In fact, some things had gone even better than I expected. But for that whole day I fought that malaise in my spirit. I read all the Bible verses and stuff that usually strengthen me, hn! But nothing worked. I even had trouble deciding on a Bit. And when I finally thought I’d done so and began writing it, I changed my mind in mid stream. I kept on asking the Most High for a reason, but you know how He operates. It was not until sometime in the late afternoon, when I decided to have a nap, that I got some sort of an answer. He insinuated that it was just one of those things, one of those things we all have to go through. How could I encourage people with a downcast, hurting spirit, if I had not experienced it myself? Hn! Obviously I gave a low, mirthless chuckle at that explanation, and though not at all thrilled by the situation, continued fighting the good fight, until later that night I finally wrote a Scrip-bit I thought was pretty good. The one about J.C teaching in the temple, saying that the Father had not left Him alone, but had sent the Holy Spirit to help Him. Hopefully it was that same Holy Spirit, that fabulous Helper, that was then working in me, to bring me out of the unholy funk I’d been in. That made me feel somewhat better, sort of restored my confidence, and I finally perked back up. Since then, I’ve been pretty good. Just goes to show once again, His mysterious ways of working, although I was not particularly thrilled about that one. Friends, there’s nothing as deflating and miserable as a disquieted spirit, especially when there’s no apparent reason for it. So whenever that happens, and it happens to all of us at some time or another, just remember that the Lord is still in control, and though you may not be able to see or understand His reasoning, there’s some hidden purpose, and if you’ll just hang in and continue to fight the good fight, sooner or later your spirits will be restored to even greater heights. Much LOVE and plenty perseverance… that’s the only way we’ll succeed.
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