I couldn't help but noticed all the cherry blossoms parading their beauty as I was driving to Benicia this morning! They were in full bloom along side the highways, in front of neighbors' yards, and in even in places where you wouldn't think their pinks and whites would bloom. But to think that they are only here for a short while. Soon, they will start to fall and cover the ground beneath them like fresh snow. I want to cherish them while I can still appreciate. Isn't this how our outlook in life and love should be? Everything will fade away. Relationships, possessions, and health. But one indelible thing that will never fade that comes to mind, the only thing actually, is God's Word. So, I met with my God this morning and he gave me this message. I really need to put more effort in getting to know HIM more. "In suffering and in studying." Praise God for a brand new day of freedom!
If you cannot express yourself well on each of your beliefs, work and study until you can. If you don’t, other people may miss out on the blessings that come from knowing the truth. Strive to re-express a truth of God to yourself clearly and understandably, and God will use that same explanation when you share it with someone else. But you must be willing to go through God’s winepress where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle, experiment, and rehearse your words to express God’s truth clearly. Then the time will come when that very expression will become God’s wine of strength to someone else. But if you are not diligent and say, "I’m not going to study and struggle to express this truth in my own words; I’ll just borrow my words from someone else," then the words will be of no value to you or to others. Try to state to yourself what you believe to be the absolute truth of God, and you will be allowing God the opportunity to pass it on through you to someone else.
Always make it a practice to stir your own mind thoroughly to think through what you have easily believed. Your position is not really yours until you make it yours through suffering and study. The author or speaker from whom you learn the most is not the one who teaches you something you didn’t know before, but the one who helps you take a truth with which you have quietly struggled, give it expression, and speak it clearly and boldly.
Oswald Chambers
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