I am referring you to OUR DAILY BREAD today as it is an excellent devotion and whereas I have neglected to sit long enough to write so far this day. I am providing you a link (click HERE) as well as for your convenience a cut and paste below. A really neat feature at ODB website is you can HEAR the devotion and Scripture read. Great feature, I think.
Thank you for your love and prayers, Kathie
Your Spiritual Pipeline
June 13, 2011 — by Dennis Fisher
Our Daily Bread Radio is hosted by Les Lamborn
Read: Psalm 57
My soul trusts in You; and in the shadow of Your wings I will make my refuge. —Psalm 57:1
Bible in a year: Ezra 6-8; John 21
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline stretches 800 miles through Alaska. Because it was built through an earthquake zone, engineers had to be sure the pipe could withstand earth trauma. They decided on a network of Teflon sliders designed to ease the shock when the ground moved below the pipes. Engineers were delighted when the first big test came. In 2002, an earthquake occurred causing the ground to move 18 feet to one side. The Teflon sliders moved gently to accommodate the movement without any damage to the pipe. The key was flexibility.
The believer’s spiritual pipeline to heaven is built upon firm trust in God. But if we are inflexible in our expectations of how God should work, we can run into trouble. In a crisis, we can make the mistake of shifting our focus from God to our painful circumstances. Our prayer should be, “God, I don’t understand why You have allowed this painful situation. But I am trusting in Your ultimate deliverance despite all that’s going on around me.” The psalmist expressed this so well when he wrote: “My soul trusts in You . . . until these calamities have passed by” (Ps. 57:1).
When the earth seems to move under us, let’s be flexible in our expectations but firmly confident in God’s steadfast love and care.
Press forward and fear not! Though trials be near;
The Lord is our refuge; whom then shall we fear?
His staff is our comfort, our safeguard His rod;
Then let us be steadfast and joy in our God. —Anon.
God may delay or deny our request,
but He will never disappoint our trust.
