Tuesday, 27 December 2016
The Attitude of a Victor
Dr RJ Sing
“And [also] most of the brethren have derived fresh confidence in the Lord because of my chains and are much more bold to speak and publish fearlessly the Word of God [acting with more freedom and indifference to the consequences].”
It is important that you understand that Paul made these statements while he was in prison, and prison then was not the comfortable atmosphere of home that it is today. He said that we should count it – we should consider it – a sheer gift of pure joy when we are faced with tests and challenges. The word “when” conveys the idea of an unplanned, inadvertent occurrence that surrounds you.
Consider with me the story of the Good Samaritan who found a man who “FELL” among thieves...That poor man did not PLAN to be beaten and robbed – it was an unplanned and inadvertent occurrence that was brought upon him unexpectedly. In Acts 27, Paul was a prisoner on a ship that FELL into a place where two seas met...They got caught up in some crosscurrents that caused them to hit a reef, sticking the front of the ship in the sandbar. With the front of their ship stuck in the sandbar, the back of the ship began to break apart as the waves beat violently against it. They were in a place of turbulence, it was a place they did not plan to be and a storm they were not expecting put them there!
Sometimes life sends us storms that forces us into a crosscurrent of turmoil.
From the December 2016 issue, themed Abundance is My Portion.
