Rise to the Occasion...

God is the Master Designer, and He allows adversities into your life to see if you can jump over them properly—"By my God I can leap over a wall" ( Psalm 18:29 ). God will never shield you from the requirements of being His son or daughter. First Peter 4:12 says, "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you . . . ." Rise to the occasion—do what the trial demands of you. It does not matter how much it hurts as long as it gives God the opportunity to manifest the life of Jesus in your body.


May God not find complaints in us anymore, but spiritual vitality—a readiness to face anything He brings our way. The only proper goal of life is that we manifest the Son of God; and when this occurs, all of our dictating of our demands to God disappears. Our Lord never dictated demands to His Father, and neither are we to make demands on God. We are here to submit to His will so that He may work through us what He wants. Once we realize this, He will make us broken bread and poured-out wine with which to feed and nourish others.

Utmost 05.15.07

God is the master designer. He is the one that calls the shots, the one who has designed me to be who I am and the one who has ordained every chance meeting with those He has put around me. Rise to the occasion. It is difficult, but it is what is necessary for me. Though there are uncertainties, He is gracious, All things work for the good of those who love Him (Rom 828). He promised. He has spoken. What I have to let go to experience Him unfettered... it is all worth it, for what He is going to show me, what He is going to do in me.

It is a step of faith. Knowing that what I give up will be more than made up for, in ways that I cannot imagine nor even begin to devise. It is a leap off a cliff. Well, knowing perhaps more than I need to, here I come ...