Life at the Limits

The Secret of Life at the Limits

For some time now the use of the word uncertainty has been used as the cause and effect of economic, social, and moral breakdown of people and cultures.  The effort to stay in control of things becomes more difficult all the time.  For hundreds of millennia in the prehistoric past, individuals defended their own land and built their own shelters.  Communities were far apart; tragic events affected relatively few people.  Today, people living close together in complex social networks become victim to the stress filled, hate empowered binges of mindless acts  of futility and the  value of life and morality denigrate into the mire of stagnation.

             Into this ever increasing darkness God is raising up a people.  A people who are prepared to stabilize the environment and reveal that there is one true constant in the midst of global uncertainty.  They are a people with steel in their backbone and iron in their souls.  They know their purpose; they increase their productivity and are sustained by the power that issues forth from the core of their being.   You can recognize these people by the lives they live and the belief system they live by.  Broken and undone by the very presence of a Holy God these people of weakness are those whose lives are no longer their own, their profession is, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”.

            They are weak and make mistakes but this same Holy God has equipped them with wisdom to arrest their frailty use it for good and allow circumstances to blossom into goodness.

           When moment by moment the natural life of men and nations seem to be reaching limits of imminent danger and catastrophe the presence of this Holy God stays the hand of man because He and He alone holds the keys of time and testing.  Make no mistake about this God is Sovereign ruler of earth and is fulfilling His purpose in the earth today.  Not a second early or a moment too late…His timing is perfect!

            His people have learned to live in uncertainty—they gladly bow the knee to His higher way in every situation and in doing so remain calmly focused on the goal of life and God’s purpose for every man.  “To worship God and serve Him only”