"...for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth." Isaiah 37:3b
We've all been there before; we'll be there again; we might even be there now. The moment has come that requires all of our faculties, talents, and strengths to come to bear; for all that we are to stand up and answer the charge laid before us, to stand up and be accounted for. We have truly come to the edge; and it is there, in that moment, that we discover our staggering inability. The enemy is too much, the obstacle(s) too large, the cost too high, the risk too great, etc. It has come time to deliver, and we find no strength to do it.
We will run into this situation again and again, from things of asinine importance to vital importance; and we will continue to stumble through those moments like fools until we realize their purpose. They are not there to make you fall back, nor are they there to make you leap out in reckless abandon onto your own doubtful strengths. The arm of flesh will fail you. "Cursed is the man that trust in man," said Jeremiah. Such reckless abandon is truly only reckless.
These "edge moments" are meant to make us leap out in reckless abandon, not on ourselves, but on God. Hezekiah knew that the moment had arrived, and that Israel could not deliver the goods. So what did he do? "He went into the house of the Lord" (vs. 1), and the he sought out Isaiah, the Lord's prophet (vs. 2). Hezekiah knew exactly where to turn when his strength failed him. Do we have such knowledge?
Lean on the arm of flesh
Or the Everlasting Arms.
How many times
Have I chosen foolishly...
-Jon Vowell
We've all been there before; we'll be there again; we might even be there now. The moment has come that requires all of our faculties, talents, and strengths to come to bear; for all that we are to stand up and answer the charge laid before us, to stand up and be accounted for. We have truly come to the edge; and it is there, in that moment, that we discover our staggering inability. The enemy is too much, the obstacle(s) too large, the cost too high, the risk too great, etc. It has come time to deliver, and we find no strength to do it.
We will run into this situation again and again, from things of asinine importance to vital importance; and we will continue to stumble through those moments like fools until we realize their purpose. They are not there to make you fall back, nor are they there to make you leap out in reckless abandon onto your own doubtful strengths. The arm of flesh will fail you. "Cursed is the man that trust in man," said Jeremiah. Such reckless abandon is truly only reckless.
These "edge moments" are meant to make us leap out in reckless abandon, not on ourselves, but on God. Hezekiah knew that the moment had arrived, and that Israel could not deliver the goods. So what did he do? "He went into the house of the Lord" (vs. 1), and the he sought out Isaiah, the Lord's prophet (vs. 2). Hezekiah knew exactly where to turn when his strength failed him. Do we have such knowledge?
Lean on the arm of flesh
Or the Everlasting Arms.
How many times
Have I chosen foolishly...
-Jon Vowell
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