Irony that the situation provides perfect impetus for transformation, yet we crave escape from circumstance.  We want desperately for God to produce miracle and we are unwilling to stand in the fire long enough for His Timing to arrive.  When was the last time I appreciated the dynamism of my implausible scenario?  Have I ever understood the possibility built into my painful, desperate, unhappy circumstance?  Wouldn’t that be the miracle, loving and trusting God enough to simply stand, no matter the cost, within the scene into which I’ve been injected, loving, trusting, representing that trust?

We were meant to overcome this world, just as our Lord has already.  Isn’t overcoming viewing each other from eternal perspective and seeing God’s Grace in our testimony?  What has He done for you, not the prizes, the treasures, the rewards, but the wonderful pregnant circumstance into which He has placed you?  I am in awe of His Creative genius, endless love and perfect timing, in that each of us have been perfectly placed into the exact scenarios through which we will be precisely prepared to complete His Will for our lives.

How does this view flip perspective?  You mean that oppressive job, the trickle of love I receive and this poverty are intended?  Precisely.  it is through the struggle within my relationships, predicaments and surroundings that I am shaped in this training ground of life.  How better might that be achieved if I were to welcome each arduous moment, transforming my opinion to one of acceptance and appreciation?  My scarcity would then become opportunity to learn stewardship and gratefulness for plenty.  My marriage a wonderful platform for learning love, unselfish behavior and appreciation for the mechanisms of personal change.  The pressures of life and work a grand environment for building patience, creativity and reliance upon God’s faithfulness.

How then would I find my life unfulfilling when even the difficulties are viewed divinely?  How often would my courage be bolstered when I heard saints’ testimony describing these wondrous opportunities, provided before the beginning of time through the Grace of God?  This world may only thrash them who have personal expectations.  Would it change our lives at all if we were to forget the loud voice of human desire, the “I wants” and “I wishes” instead fully embracing what we have been given by God?  How would we differ as men and women if we finally surrendered to God’s wishes, living out the Word which lay beside our beds in the top drawer?  What if I embraced my circumstance as a gift, a present given me by God, intentionally and specifically designed to prepare me for the miracle of service for Him?  Don’t we want to see the miracle?  It only happens if we have the courage to stand, gratefully, patiently, dependently upon God’s timing.  If you look that is what the Word teaches.  My advice stop trying to escape, instead embrace, accept and appreciate your wonderful circumstance, trusting in God’ Wisdom, not your own desirous, misguided understanding.

Father give us the faith to wait for the miracle crafted within each of us.  Give us the strength of character necessary to love those who don’t deserve it and accept the shaping provided by our perfect circumstance.  Gird our loins with expectation, the expectation of your Miracles and Promises.  Make us not bitter in the pursuits but thankful for the opportunity to be shaped according to Your Intended Will for each of our lives.  In Jesus’ Name I pray.