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Water In The Pipe

by Shannon Heiden  
9/29/2009 / Devotionals


Beautiful One, did you know that with enough pressure applied to your life, you can break?
Even the most anointed, faith filled and powerful people can break. If enough pressure is applied. The fact is; we all have a breaking point, and we don't know where it is, until we reach it.....

The bible is filled with stories of men and women. Men and women just like us. They had needs, wants, and desires. They also had weakness, vulnerabilities and pain. What makes these men and women notable in the history of Gods Word? Were they so powerfully awesome, sinless, and favored by God? ... Or, were they stubborn and refused to give up? Maybe they just believed in the impossible.
Could it be that they just believed God?

Is it really that simple?

Why is it that when we encounter trying times, we so easily forget that there is nothing new under the sun? Our trials may be new to us, but someone somewhere has walked through them either before us, or after.. Which of us remembers in the midst of them, that they are our teachers? Trials are meant to define our faith, not destroy it.

When we examine the lives of great men and women, the very things that makes them great, is not their successes. But the overcoming of the enormous odds that they each faced in getting there.

Beautiful One, in case no one told you, you will have seasons in your life where you will feel great pressure. Times where nothing makes sense, including God.

During these times, everything is shaken. Our faith, value's and our principles. Everything that we thought we had a handle on, could in a blink of an eye, be instantaneously out of our grasp.

Think of the people God used, like Elijah. God did amazing, powerful things through and in him. But the mighty prophet still dealt with depression and fear and found himself wanting to give up and die.

Then there's Abraham. God said he was righteous because of his faith, and yet, he was a liar, and he tried to bring Gods promise to pass through his wife's plottings.

Who can forget Peter? The handpicked Apostle who was Gods choice to be the first Pastor of the Christian Church.

Peter walked closely with the Lord Jesus for three and half years, and yet, he cursed and had a temper which flared more than his faith while he experienced the pain of walking away from God as well.

Take a look at Rahab? Many did, she was a prostitute. What heavenly good could this woman's earthly behavior ever done to have been used to help God?

None of it. In fact, none of Elijah's, Peter's or Rahabs behavior totally pleased God.

But their faith in what He could do, did.

God can and does use anything He chooses. Shocker, I know. The Pharisee in us has a hard time with this..

There are countless men and women that God used, and he didn't use them because they were holier than most, or because they didn't experience some dysfunction. He used them in spite of them.

If you really think about it, God will never find anyone to use who has it all together, because there is only One thats good and that is himself.

The truth remains that God is God. And He has the ability, and power to take any pressure and breaking point in our lives and use it for his glory. He can use a donkey and give him a voice. He can take a Gideon who is hiding and afraid and make him mighty. He can take a Samson, with no eyes, and give him strength. Somewhere he'll take a shepherd boy, and topple a giant. God will take the pressures of life, and use them to push you through the pipe of adversity.

You will burst forth like never before, and God will receive all the glory and praise that is due him.

Beautiful One, our tragedies are actually the blueprints for our triumphs. How great could we really know God to be, if our trouble hadn't told us so? The apostle Paul, one of the greatest witnesses that ever lived and who never met Jesus face to face, explains it this way:

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:8 NIV)

Simply said; we are water in a pipe. Sometimes our lives flow and run smoothly. Other times, some gunk gets caught in there and it slowly decreases our flow. After awhile, the water stops flowing altogether and the pressure increases.

Eventually, the pipe will either burst from the pressure, or we will allow our God to skillfully reach in and pull out the muck, so that we may flow forward...

And through it all, the choice, remains to be ours....

Beautiful One, Just believe!

Shannon Heiden
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changingonelifereachingmany.typepad.com

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