A few friends on this site and others have been asking me to tell a little more about myself so I will, but don't blame me if it bores you for it was not my idea.
In a recent blog I shared a very precious experience I had with The Lord during a time of great blessing and favour and the lesson I learned from it. I called the blog "The long, dark tunnel." What I have since come to understand is that this was not just an isolated experience or sequence of events but was in fact a "prophetic picture" God was really showing me what was about to happen, what has happened and indeed what is happening right now in my christian walk. I am very much the girl in that tunnel, and a very dark one it is too, I am also that fledgling blackbird who came to grief against the wall and plopped down in the long grass to preen and to sort himself out.
The picture is so strikingly accurate of what has happened to me and is happening that I am filled with awe at this wonderful,wonderful Lord that I walk with, even in the very dark places of the earth, He is right there and doesn't leave us alone, no, not for a second, we may lose the peace and joy of His presence and our way may become so very dark that we cannot see so much as an inch in front of our noses, especially if we are in disobedience or backsliding. The devil will all but scream at us that we are forsaken and that God has after all repented that He ever saved us, we might look back and scarcely be able to discern the beginnings of our faith and we might look ahead and not be able to make out even the faintest glimmer of light ahead to guide us forward, reach out and touch the wall and do not ever give up to despair, you must go on, turning back may seem like an option but that is to surrender to the sneering, hate-filled voice of Satan. Say no, no, never Mr devil, he is a liar, a thief and a murderer, if you pay heed to his voice you are yielding yourself to his will for your life-how happy he will be-keep contact with that wall, prayer if you like,the word of God if you like, praise, fellowship in the things of The Holy Spirit. And if the going forward be a painfully, painful slow affair, yet go forward still. Trust in God, He is faithful, He will bring you forth as pure gold tried and tested in the fire of adversity. And when He has brought you back out once more into the sunshine He will reveal Himself to you and show you His plan for your life.
But I am still inside the tunnel, no shimmer of light yet appears up ahead, my great peace and comfort is this, that God took time and patience to show me beforehand that these things would be, and just as surely as the trials and tribulations have come to pass, why, this very fact is the firm assurance that I have that there will be an end. There shall be a coming forth. The Sun of righteousness will yet arise with healing in His wings, His light will yet arise upon me and my glory will come. All praise and honour and glory be unto Him Who is mighty and has done wonderous things for me.
