Rest. Rebuild. Wait.
My three words for this long season. I feel that I have moved into the rebuilding time. I’ve barely started into this season and it has been painful. My walls have crumbled and all that is left is the rubble of the past. Where is the faith I used to have? The joy and excitement?
Rebuilding is not easy. All kinds of problems arise as noted when both Eara and Nehemiah encountered opposition when they started rebuilding the temple and the walls of Jerusalem.
My opposition has been fear and anxiety. I have challenged those and the enemy is not making it easy for me this year. Seems that as one piece of wall goes up another side crumbles.
“But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.” By John McCarthy [in Hangchow, China]. Taken from Hudson Taylor’s publication, The Exchanged Life.
(Wrote August 25, 2021 and quoted added Oct. 4, 2021.)
