We all have some or several things in our life we do not like or totally understand. After having a brain aneurysm stroke 51 years ago, My wife and I have lived with my physical limitations. we have made many life and family adjustments. One of the limitations that bothers me more than you might think is dealing with numbness on my left side which affects my mouth that often droops and drips.
Some days it is worse than others. Some mornings as I am bending over to put on a shoe or to pull up my pants, my mouth will drip and moist evidence runs down my chest and I think to myself, “Has life boiled down to this? I wipe up the moisture and thank GOD THAT I STILL AM ALIVE. and able to go on.
Sometimes my wife will say, “Your left mouth” and I know there must be something on my face that missed my mouth. I do not like that about me, yet little or nothing I can do to change this residual stroke affect.
I have a talk in my line-up of messages entitled, “Accepting, Adjusting, and going on”. When a person gets stuck on one of those high hurdles in life, then there is “no going on”.
Going on is what God’s strength, leading, and vision has happened in my/our family’s life. We all have reasons to quit, fold our hands, and stop producing fruit for Jesus. Yet His word says, “Be faithful until death and I will give you the crown of life.” Rev 2:10.
And aren’t we all glad Jesus didn’t quit on us! He walked up Golgotha’s hill, knowing what was next for Him. With every step, Jesus must have been thinking more about pleasing his Father’s will, more about the millions of people he was dying to redeem, than the pain awaiting him. He didn’t stop and call more than twelve legions of angels (72,000) to rescue him. How did Jesus get beyond that moment. He took the long look and saw you and me unable to save ourselves. His action loudly continues to say,”THEY ARE WORTH IT”!
It’s easy to get distracted and side-lined from God’s purpose statement for yours and my life with small things like a mouth dripping. This is a minor nuisance compared to learning to walk again with paralysis, getting dressed with one hand, and being able to be vocally be heard again following my stroke 51 years ago. Life and ministry and family have gone on. We still have a God to serve and God has blessed us with 14 grands and 3 greats to enjoy and watch mature for Jesus in life.
There are many things in this life you and I may never understand or like, yet trusting God provides reason enough to go on! PROVERBS 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways, acknowledge him. He will direct your path.”
Well said by the wisest man on earth, inspired by God. This gives us sound counsel about how to live for and trust the Almighty creator of the universe, even when we may not understand or like our circumstances or situations we face.
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