The End of Your Rope

What's at the end of your rope?

I can tell you (and deep down you may already know) because it was at the end of mine.

You have found yourself at that tattered, biting bit of rope, and the reality that your desperate, sweaty grip can only hang on for so much longer...

And now you recognize God's loving, patient, steady hand...stretched out to you - ready to relieve you in arms that feel no weight - as it has been all along while you've been clinging to the rope...yourself...your job/finances...your friends...the government...the media...the church...anywhere but the stark truth of your own weakness and God's might.

I don't mean to imply that we always do this deliberately or out of spite; but how much easier if we would deliberately place our hand in His from the get-go, even before trouble comes.

Dwell in His hands. Don't just save them for a "rainy day."

The moment your hand leaves His, the clouds start gathering, and the downpour is inevitable.

His promises are true, weatherproof, and they don't tatter as rope does.

Glorify Him - Today

I'm not the hero, even of my own story.

You're not the hero of yours.

Are you ok with that?

No, really. Think about it for as long as it takes.

Are you ok - and humbly surrendered - knowing that God is the point of everything and the theme of every story and He doesn't need your abilities though you and I certainly need His?

The pivotal moment in every story is whether you will turn to or from God and His finished work on the cross through His Son Jesus, either in belief and repentance or denial and rejection.

When we choose to turn to Him we gain not only a cause, but His moment-by-moment aid and comfort in living for it.

Choosing to turn from Him leads to an empty life with no purpose (because He is the purpose and we are in rebellion to that fact) and a continual cycle of trying to be "enough" on our own when that is entirely futile.

Christian, do whatever you can - to whatever scale - to honour Him and bring Him glory: today. Don't wait until doing something will get you noticed or make you a "hero", or that you are confidant enough in to do "on your own."

We must acknowledge that any work done through us is still accomplished by Him working in us, and not of our own merit. We must prayerfully take our motives to Christ and ask Him to renew a right spirit in us; He knows them already.

"The Stones Cry Out"

"And when he was come nigh...the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen;

Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.

And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out."

Luke 19:37-40

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I don't know about you, but I don't want to be outdone by a bunch of rocks when it comes to praising our Creator.

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Boldly, shamelessly, constantly, tell of what God has done and is doing, both in your life and all throughout time! not because of anything we have done, but because of Who He is.