Week Seventeen Question and Response

Week Seventeen Question:

…can God’s love hold when everything says that His love is a lie, and that there is no such thing as justice? – can we not only believe in the love of God but be more than conquerors, even while we are being starved?

“It does not matter what actual troubles in the most extreme form get hold of a man’s life, not one of them can separate him from his relationship to God.” Chambers  May 19

My Response to Week Seventeen Question:

Chambers’ words from My Utmost for His Highest, dated August 26, echoes my heart and says it all:

“Are you painfully disturbed just now, distracted by the waves and billows of God’s providential permission, and having, as it were, turned over the boulders of your belief, are you still finding no well of peace or joy or comfort; is all barren? Then look up and receive the undisturbedness of the Lord Jesus. Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him. If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself. If you allow anything to hide the face of Jesus Christ from you, you are either disturbed or you have a false security.

Are you looking unto Jesus now, in the immediate matter that is pressing and receiving from Him peace? If so, He will be a gracious benediction of peace in and through you. But if you try to worry it out, you obliterate Him and deserve all you get. We get disturbed because we have not been considering Him. When one confers with Jesus Christ, the perplexity goes because He has no perplexity, and our only concern is to abide in Him. Lay it all out before Him, and in the face of difficulty, bereavement and sorrow, hear Him say, 'Let not your heart be troubled.'”

Lord of all my days, I fix my eyes on You and lay my burdens before Your holy throne of grace. You are my life, my desire, and my peace.