Liberating Our Perspectives - Final

Love much. There is no waste in freely giving;
More blessed is it, even, than to receive.
He who loves much, alone finds life worth living;
Love on, through doubt and darkness; and believe
There is nothing which Love may not achieve.–Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Sometimes what seems like something bad, something unjust or unfair could be His way of warning us of some even greater trouble that we’re heading for. Recognizing the potential for trouble can often help us avoid something far worse. Picture your computer sending you warnings by shutting down, causing you to lose work because something is wrong with your hard drive. If this happened, would you assume that the computer or the programs running it were just getting back at you by not saving your files or making you suffer loss? Or would you realize that there must be something positive that can be gleaned from what’s happening; namely you realize that your hard drive may be starting to fail and you need to buy a new hard drive before you risk losing everything.

The losses hurt, but that doesn’t mean the intent is to cause you harm or punishment. The upside of those troublesome setbacks is to help you in some way. That new hard drive will hold lots more data, run more efficiently, and make your tasks easier in the future.

That’s what our sometimes debilitating struggles can do for us. They can help us look at what is most important. They can spur us on to do more than we ever dreamed possible. Often, feeling the hopelessness of the circumstances, the frustration with the way things are, the impossibility of carrying on business as usual, helps us realize the need to get in deeper, more solid, unbreakable communication with Jesus.

And just as Jesus’ love for us was manifested in using His suffering to help us, so His love in us can be used to help others. We’re each a work in progress, but that doesn’t mean we can’t use each small step we take as a tool to help others. Even as we are progressing toward spiritual victories, our faith can provide us with so much to offer in counsel, answers, and hope for others who are struggling with monumental upsets or times of severe discouragement and a loss of vision. As we learn more about the freedom, joy, mercy and compassion that Jesus makes available to us, we come to understand His nature more clearly and how to emulate Him in our own lives, today and for eternity.






Director's Corner TFI