Mirrors or Windows?
“For I know the plans I have for you.” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Here is what Warren W. Wiersbe has to say about this verse:
“The next time you are in a storm, or the battle, or you feel you are on trial, or going through travail, or suffering in the furnace, meditate on that promise.”
Here is what he says:
“God is thinking about you personally, and is planning for you in ways that you could never understand let alone imagine. Let Him have His way. Your future is secure if you are trusting Him.”
“If you wallow in self-pity, then the picture of pain will become mirrors, and all you will see is yourself.”
“But if you trust Jesus Christ and commit yourself to Him, the pictures will become windows through which you will see God and the vast horizons of blessings He is preparing for you. Which will it be? Mirrors or Windows?”
Page 73, Why Us? When Bad Things Happen To God’s People by Warren W. Wiersbe.
What an awesome insight and what a blessing this little book has been to me. It has given me a better understanding of some of what has been going on in my life and points me to the Word of God.
Some of the comments that he made where that God has not promised to make us comfortable, but has determined to make us conformable, that as we go through the fire, through the furnace, the dross is removed and we are made pliable and moldable in His hands.
That the battles of life are not easy but God has given us the equipment to succeed, that each victory prepares us for the next battle which will cause us to grow. That we will need patience, that harvest does not come over night, there is planting first and in time the harvest will come.
That the time of travail will be a birthing process, that todays sufferings can mean tomorrows glory. That we need to know that in the mist of the storms, the Lord will speak to us and that we need to to yield to the pruning knife of the Lord, so that which is not of Him can be removed and we will come forth with much better fruit.
What has really been awesome about this book that was written in 1984 is how much that it confirm things to me that the Lord has been speaking to me over the last couple of years.
That out of all of what I have been going through, or what you have been going through in your life is to help us to conform to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ and enables us to walk in the fullness of all that the Lord has for us, that which He has accomplished on the cross.
How awesome it is to know that His plans for us are to prosper, not to harm us but to give us a hope and a future.
So!! Which will it be? Mirrors or Windows?
Till later,
Paul