Too Much, Too Long, Too Hard!

The killer blow, the straw that broke the camels back, one problem too many! What happens when the worst happens?  What do you do when you really should not recover?   Proverbs 24:16 makes it very clear, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again…”.  A brief analysis of this verse reveals powerful truths.  Seven in Bible numerics is the perfect number.  This seventh attack, sudden disaster or heartbreak is the “perfect blow” for it has within it all the ingredients to “KO” the believer.  Yet Jesus declares that even this will not be able to keep a righteous man or woman down.  Reading the whole verse we discover that the child of God will not only recover and rise again but that this victory will be in stark contrast to the misfortune that awaits those who do not trust in Him, “…but the wicked shall fall…”. 

Your worst nightmare is no match for your Saviour.  When you have no light in the middle of your darkest hour Jesus will be your light, “Rejoice not against me, O my enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me”, Micah 7:8.

When you are going through a hard time the secret is to keep going!  For Christ is your Light in the tunnel and not just at the end of it. 

When you have been hit by a body blow, when the wind has been knocked out of you, when your circumstances are sucking the life from you then declare with all your might that you, “…have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

Don’t lose sight of the spiritual facts just because of the harsh reality of your situation – Peter and the disciples in Luke 5:5-6 learnt this lesson well, “Master, we have toiled [exhausted all our combined experience and done everything we know too do] all night [that is, we have fought through the darkest of hours] and have… NOTHING…nevertheless [we will believe and obey and] they enclosed a great multitude…”.  There is a powerful hidden truth in this passage.  Fishing at night should have yielded their best catch but it produced nothing.  By the time morning had come their decades of fishing experience told them that the opportunity had passed.  This was exactly the place where Christ wanted them.  Their obedience to His commands when all natural indications pointed to things having gone beyond the point of no return produced a result much better than they had hoped for.  When there is no point, no way out and no options left do not be conformed to this world and give up but be transformed and pray, trust and obey for your miracle is closer than you think (Romans 12:2).