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Friday, May 20,
2022
Sunset over Ocean Beach Pier in
San Diego
Taken
by our friend Steve Higgins
"Out
Of The Wreck I Rise"
Personal
note: I am slowly recovering from the bike accident
I had on Tuesday and will share an update below. Today's
message is different than planned. I plan to share two
more messages about David next week.
Message
summary: We can all declare,
"Out Of The Wreck I Rise".
Podcast not
prepared for this message.
Brooksyne
thought the entry for yesterday's "My Utmost for His
Highest" by Oswald Chambers was fitting for me. It was
titled "Out Of The Wreck I Rise". I am still in
considerable pain and weak and weary so I will lean on the
words of one of the most familiar and beloved devotional
writers for the majority of today's message.
"Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ?" (Romans 8:35)
"God does not keep a man immune from
trouble; He says - "I will be with him in trouble." 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. We are "more
than conquerors in all these things."
Paul
is not talking of imaginary things, but of things that are
desperately actual; and he says we are super-victors in
the midst of them, not by our ingenuity, or by our
courage, or by anything other than the fact that not one
of them affects our relationship to God in Jesus Christ.
Rightly or wrongly, we are where we are, exactly in the
condition we are in. I am sorry for the Christian who has
not something in his circumstances he wishes was not
there.
"Shall tribulation . . . ?" Tribulation is never a noble
thing; but let tribulation be what it may - exhausting,
galling, fatiguing, it is not able to separate us from the
love of God. Never let cares or tribulations separate you
from the fact that God loves you.
"Shall
anguish . . . ?" - can God's love hold when everything
says that His love is a lie, and that there is no such
thing as justice?
"Shall famine . . . ?" - can we not only believe in the
love of God but be more than conquerors, even while we are
being starved?
Either Jesus Christ is a deceiver and Paul is deluded, or
some extraordinary thing happens to a man who holds on to
the love of God when the odds are all against God's
character. Logic is silenced in the face of every one of
these things. Only one thing can account for it - the love
of God in Christ Jesus.
"Out of the wreck I rise" every time.
Now to be very clear,
recovering from a recreational bike wreck that could have
been far worse does not even remotely compare to what so
many are going through but what a blessed reminder of a word
I have often encouraged people with, "No, in all these
things we are more than conquerors through him who loved
us" (Romans 8:37).
It's a great truth for every
one of us. Every word is rich with meaning and can be
ponderously exegeted. Let's look at one phrase "More than
conquerors". This actually translates a single Greek word
"hupernikao". This word is linguistically known as a
"hapax legomenon". This is a term used for words that
occur only once in a body of literature, of course in this
case the New Testament. In fact it's so rare that it's
possible that Paul devised it to express his thought.
It is actually a combination
of two more familiar words; "huper" from whence we get
"hyper" and nikao from whence "Nike" gets its name. "Huper"
literally means over but carries the sense of the
superlative. "Nikao" is most often translated "overcome" and
is found most frequently in Revelation. I like to compare
translations and I suppose for this verse I'm most blessed
by the rendering in the NASV which states "we overwhelmingly
conquer". Now let that bless your soul today, fellow
overcomer! Indeed we can all declare, "Out Of The Wreck I
Rise".
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer: Father, I am so grateful
that being a conqueror is not a title
that I can earn by my own strategy or my
position in life. I recognize that I am
an overcomer solely because I am a Child
of God. The battles I conquer and the
ultimate victory I attain in my lifetime
come wholly because of the blood of
Jesus Christ. I am more than a conqueror
through Jesus who loves me and gave
Himself unreservedly for the remission
of my sins. Thank you for the
inexhaustible supply of Your grace,
power, and provision for my salvation
and my walk with You in the ensuing
battles of daily life.Today's
Suggested Music and Supplemental
Resources
"Out Of
Ashes" Video Steve
Green
"Beauty
For Ashes" Video Chris
McClarney
Personal
note: I shared yesterday about a
bike accident I had on Tuesday morning up
at Swatara State Park in Lebanon County.
Yesterday
I went to orthopedic urgent care and had
x-rays and an MRI. They suspect I have a
rotator cuff tear. I was the first patient
to use a brand new MRI machine so I was
treated as somewhat of a celebrity!
I have a
follow-up appointment next week.
I am
thankful for the many expressions of
concern and prayer as well as offers to
help. One friend in CA offered to send a
Doordash! Local friends and neighbors have
rallied. Tomorrow Eli James, a hardworking
young Amish teenager, is coming over to
help; mowing my lawn, getting my broken
bike out of the van, etc.
Brooksyne
and Ester are visiting an elderly friend
who lives on Sunset Cliffs Blvd in San
Diego named for these sunset cliffs!
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on photo for larger view
Brooksyne
and Ester had a visit from Steve Higgins,
who is out in San Diego on business. Steve
and his wife Andrea and twin daughters
were part of the church we served in New
England in the 90's. We are so blessed by
many longtime friendships! The cliffs are
just beyond the road.
Yesterday I
mustered the strength to share a message
with a men's group at Calvary Homes and
was blessed to receive a blessing from
Eric Crichton, a 101 year old retired
pastor. He is a former pastor of the
church we now attend.
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