I have taught and need myself to be taught again. I have healed, helped others to find faith and overcome difficulties and need to be healed myself. Recently I found my security pulled from beneath me when I was told suddenly that my place of employment for the past ten years was about to terminate. What was I to do ? I still had financial commitments, a wife and family to care for and new openings for employment were not easy to come by. For thirty six years I have been blessed with steady employment hardly losing a day’s pay. I was now faced with an experience I never contemplated would happen to me. Why me Lord ?
Suddenly I am afraid of the future, the hour of uncertainty. I found myself wearing Peter’s shoes. Having heard the voice of Jesus he walked upon the waters. Then came the awareness of the storm, the waves and the sea with the darkness of the clouds above. Peter suddenly found himself sinking. I was in Egypt with Abraham. Walking with the Almighty, but in a strange land and now Pharaoh looked on his wife and desired her. Panic gripped him, he was about to lose the one he loved so much. I wanted to run from the hour of uncertainty, the morrow of the unknown as the apostles all fled on hearing that the one whom they had relied so much upon was now gone from them.
How often I had preached unto others to have faith, the Lord will not forsake those who put their trust in him. Do not the scriptures teach that a sparrow that falls from the sky is known by the Almighty and we are of more value to him than that small bird. Consider the lilies of the field ? “Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith” ?
I was made to realize my faith or the lack of it when discussing my situation with a friend who is studying this aspect of scripture teaching. The friend, who has been weighed down with greater problems than ever I have experienced said, it is good that we have such experiences. It makes us lean more on the arm of the Lord than on our own might and wisdom. We learn then whether our anchor of faith is secured in the rock of our salvation or the drifting sands of our own reliance.
We thanked Moses for the hour when Israel were confronted by the sea and the mountains on their side with the enemy behind. In the hour of uncertainty, the night of the unknown, the voice of one who had faith from walking with the Mighty One of Israel was heard to cry, “Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.” We felt anew the firm right hand of the Almighty in ours, the embracing arms around us. Learning again the words of David, “I have been young, and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.”
In your darkest hour brethren and sisters whatever the experience may be, remember always in faith you will be able to see and feel the presence of the Father of lights from whom all blessing flow.
Our saddest hours and darkest, shall be bright with silent praise: And should our work, or thine, our hands employ, Thy will shall be our law, thy love our joy.
The Origin of the Organic World – Part One