The Wounded Animal

Good Monday morning! The holiday is passing, a little let down comes, the animal feelings are wounded. What does the wounded animal seek? Help, it knows there is none in the cursed earth. Healing, at some point the animal is wounded so much that it knows there is no future. The wounded animal seeks a hole to hide in to spend the final moments. We feel that too when times of tribulation come. The times we most need to seek God are those we may feel the strongest urge to hide from His Word, prayer, and worship.

What is there to thank God for in this? We might ask this question as the new day dawns with no apparent change in the circumstance. Our perverse flesh puts aside the Bible just when words of comfort are prepared. The Spirit calls out to be heard, not to layer on blame and shame, but to remind us of God and His saving grace. Did you think that grace ended at salvation? Did Jesus check off your name in the Lamb's Book of Life and then move on to the next door? No! Jesus promised to be with you and me always, even unto the end of the age.

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.(Heb 11:1) Did God provide for you in the way of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath?(1 Kings 17:8-16) No, perhaps He wants to provide in a new way. After all, God is the Creator, maybe He likes to create new ways to show His strength. Isaiah reminds us that Gods ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts like our thoughts. (55:8-9) Our thoughts tend to count the fishes and loaves, compare them with the five thousand men and their families and say, "Impossible!" Jesus looks up to heaven, prays a word of thanksgiving, and proceeds to feed the multitude, and has leftovers! We think we know so much, but we know so little of the saving power of Christ our Lord.

I look at the circumstance. I say this and that will happen in my imagination, and I crawl away from the Word to hide. Jesus says, "Trust Me!" Faith cannot hold the thing in my human hands, but faith says that all I need will be there when I need it. Peter walked on water until he saw his circumstance. Jesus rescued him and asked, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?" (Matt 14:31) When the current circumstance passes, will you and I be asked that same question?

Praise God for His glorious provision in this life!
Bucky