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It is so easy for your
world to become very small. The problems that seem to overwhelm
you are not the major tragic happenings but rather the little
picky things that relate to other picky things, and they get
under the skin of the soul like splinters.
These soul splinters are a tremendous
gift of grace from the Lord. These are the times when one must
gather up and declare to the Lord a commitment to obey ALL
the time. These are the times when the Holy Spirit must be heeded
and sin must be confessed.
It doesn't really matter how thorny
the other fellow is - if you have a soul splinter, you need
to get right. Let the Lord examine the other's flaws.
When catastrophe comes, it is
not so hard to cry to the Lord. We know we have a right, and
the heart cramps until the mouth calls to the Father. But soul
splinters are more subtile, and it takes a different spiritual
gumption to take God at His Word.
Lord, I want so much to be
available to be used in whatever way may seem unglamorous to
me. Teach me to run to you as a first reaction to all circumstances.
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