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 Renew their strength

Hey there brothers and sisters at SI

I had taken a few weeks off…not just from SI but also from much outside fellowship in general as I sensed a need within me to refix my eyes back on the Lord. (How easily I can lose that focus!) Oswald Chambers once wrote when the potter’s wheel is spinning, stay in the center of the wheel to avoid being thrown askew…Jesus is certainly that center.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but sometimes the very issues that seem so relevant to our Christian faith, can sometimes pull us from the Lord. Our sincere hearts are stirred with biblical matters to discuss, morals to sift through, and so many urgent needs within our different circles. Yet sometimes these very relevant things press out the presence of God from our hearts and minds, until even our outward speech is dry for want of living water.

It is good to let the waters of our souls be still now and then. When I am quieted before the Lord I find He is sufficient for all the other important and pressing matters of life.

There is this Spurgeon devotional that expresses it better then I can.

January 2, 2006
LET THE PEOPLES RENEW THEIR STRENGTH.
Isaiah 41:1

All things on earth need to be renewed. No created thing continues by itself. "You renew the face of the ground,"2 was the psalmist's utterance. Even the trees, which wear not themselves with care, nor shorten their lives with labor, must drink of the rain of heaven and draw from the hidden treasures of the soil. The cedars of Lebanon, which God has planted, only live because day by day they are full of sap freshly drawn from the earth. Neither can man's life be sustained without renewal from God. As it is necessary to repair the body by the frequent meal, so we must repair the soul by feeding upon the Book of God, or by listening to the preached Word, or by the soul-fattening table of the ordinances.

How depressed are our graces when means are neglected! What poor starving souls they are who live without the diligent use of the Word of God and secret prayer! If our piety can live without God it is not of divine creating; it is but a dream; for if God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew. Without constant restoration we are not ready for the perpetual assaults of hell, or the stern afflictions of heaven, or even for the strife within. When the whirlwind shall be loosed, woe to the tree that has not sucked up fresh sap and grasped the rock with many inter-twisted roots. When tempests arise, woe to the mariners that have not strengthened their mast, nor cast their anchor, nor sought the haven. If we suffer the good to grow weaker, the evil will surely gather strength and struggle desperately for the mastery over us; and as a result a painful desolation and a lamentable disgrace may follow. Let us draw near to the footstool of divine mercy in humble entreaty, and we shall realize the fulfillment of the promise, "They who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength."3
1 Genesis 4:26 2 Psalm 104:30 3 Isaiah 40:31


Blessings dear saints,

MC


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Mike Compton

 2006/1/24 22:28Profile
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 Re: Renew their strength

It is good to let the waters of our souls be still now and then. When I am quieted before the Lord I find He is sufficient for all the other important and pressing matters of life.

-Hi, MC. As I read your post, I thought of part of my sermon text for this Sunday: "Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand" (NKJV). I also think, after reading other posts this morning, that some of our brethren need to consider a small vacation..

-Thanks for pointing again to "the waters of Shiloah, which go softly" (Is. 8:6)... :-)


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