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<p>When trouble strikes, it is a rare person of faith who quickly comes to grips with the eternal values that can be derived from perplexing circumstances;<span> </span>who immediately contemplates how the difficulty will work in the direction of good.<span> </span>Regretfully, I still find myself lingering too long in the basement of doubt and self-pity before I take the staircase of promise upward to the picture window on the top floor.<span> </span>Too easily I lose the big picture and the vast panorama of God’s magnificent plans while I focus my near sighted eyes on my temporary obstacles and pain.<span> </span>Oh!<span> </span>That I would pass from this childhood of blurred understanding into the maturity of faith that steadily “sees” into the realities of the eternal unseen realm where God is vitally tangible.<span> </span>Oh! That I would <em>fix</em> my eyes upon the Master Who stands upon the sea of impossibility and welcomes me to adjust my feet to the constant up and down turbulence of the waves and weather.<span> </span>He welcomes me to “live outside the boat.”<span> </span></p>
<p>It is amazing what can happen when we get our attention fixated upon the goal of <em>Him</em>!<span> </span>The destructive weather that threatens our un-doing can become the building block of our transformation.<span> </span>Come, let us live outside the boat where He speaks the words,<span> </span>“Be encouraged and have good cheer, I have overcome the threats, the weaknesses, the obstacles, the set-backs, the grief, pain and trouble of this world.”<span> </span>Our wise heavenly Father smiles at us and upon us as we grow in understanding.<span> </span>The good news is that we will eventually, in His time, come into complete fullness.<span> </span>He promised.</p>
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