Friday, March 23, 2018

Diversity pronouces blessings!


The reason your story has been so diverse was so God could promote you in a dramatic way. He takes the righteous through great difficulty in order to promote your story.

The bible pronounces blessing upon those who find themselves on a journey. [Psalms 84:5-6] “Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on a pilgrimage. As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools.

God disrupts the safety of our comfort zones to divert us onto a path that becomes a divine storyline for our lives. The next verse says that the Psalm 84 pilgrim takes a “pass through the Valley of Baca.”

Baca means weeping or tears. It is the place of suffering. We are all headed for the same destination but how we go about getting there is sometimes different.

Job was a man God launched on a Psalm 84 pilgrimage. But we cannot make sense of Job’s valley of Baca until we see it in the breath-taking encounter with God and His Glory. Job cried out for just one day in the court with God. [Job 23:3-4]

Job 23:3-7 (MSG)
3 If I knew where on earth to find him, I'd go straight to him.
4 I'd lay my case before him face-to-face, give him all my arguments firsthand.
5 I'd find out exactly what he's thinking, discover what's going on in his head.
6 Do you think he'd dismiss me or bully me? No, he'd take me seriously.
7 He'd see a straight-living man standing before him; my Judge would acquit me for good of all charges.

 Then when he got it, what did he have to say?
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You. Therefore, I abhor myself, and repent in the dust and ashes [Job 42:5-6]

His vision changed everything. A face to face appointment with the King will bring dramatic closure to your current chapter and launch you into the next.

So, no matter what your story may be, no matter how difficult or humiliating it may be, it has been designed to bring you face to face with God and bring Glory to His name.

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