Strength for Trials

Sorry for the late post, been busy lately (as always really).  I found this little post I'd made somewhere a while back and decided it was worth cleaning up a bit and sharing, enjoy!

     Life is a long walk, a far journey. Sometimes the way is clear and the sun shines. Sometimes the night is coming and all we see are shadows. Sometimes we struggle to remember where our path lies as the sun steadily falls, as the shadows swallow our world. We panic, we scream, we cry, and sometimes..we die. Remember my friends, that whatever is thrown at us we have Jesus. We need nothing but Christ!" This world is fallen, but Christ! Each day seems harder than the last, but Christ! All you ever seem to do is fail, but Christ! You're lost and alone, but Christ! You're trapped and scared, but Christ! You don't know what to do, you cannot see the way, You struggle to remember hope, your heart races, your tears fall, your mind blurs, your soul screams, and there is nothing that you can see that is good and reliable and truthful and holy and just and wonderful, but Christ! 

     In that one all consuming truth we may stand when everything is falling.  We can take that next step, we can face that new day, we can fell that next foe! For He is our strength and our hope, He is the Way, the Truth, and the Light! In Him we are more than conquerors! When you have done all else, stand! Though He slay me, yet I will praise Him! If my duty for a time is to walk through shadow and carry sorrow I will do so with HOSANNA on my lips! For these present struggles are not worthy to compared to the glory that will be revealed in us! 

  "The LORD is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me To eat up my flesh, My enemies and foes, They stumbled and fell. Though an army may encamp against me, My heart shall not fear; Though war should rise against me, In this I will be confident. One thing I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me; Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in His tabernacle; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When You said, "Seek My face," My heart said to You, "Your face, LORD, I will seek." Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the LORD will take care of me. Teach me Your way, O LORD, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And such as breathe out violence. I would have lost heart, unless I had believed That I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!"

(Psalms 27:1-14)