When a candle as at the end of its wick, it struggles to stay lit.
It struggles to keep the flame flickering,
to keep it burning.
How do you keep that candle from going out, from dying on you?!
Well, in life, these trying times, can be hard, situations can be overwhelming.
Even though you can have everything you need and a lot of stuff you want, it is strange to me that contentiousness can still escape you. I have read in an awesome book that you should "not grow weary in well doing, for in due season, you shall reap a harvest if you do not lose heart".
This wonderful insight is comforting, but how long is this "due season".
It seems to me sometimes in life you can all you have ever wanted but difficult times still befall you. Calamity and difficulties are trying to blow out your flame.
YOU CANNOT LET IT!!!
You see, I have learned that thought there may be a storm all around you, one can still have peace in this storm. Though the winds of life beat against you, ultimately, hope should drive you on and keep the flame flickering. "Fan the flame" I have learned to do just that. Sometimes all you have is the stirring up of yourself. I have to learn that the answer and remedy is within me. I have the power to be content with what life throws at you.
It is time to stand and fan the flame. Trials will come but I have the fuel to keep burning. "Wait on the Lord and He shall renew your strength". "You shall run and not grow weary, you shall walk and not grow faint".
Its these time that shape the very character of the person that is truly deep inside of you. When pressed its the character that exudes from within. I am living proof that you can be down but not out, spent but not broke, done but not finished!!!
I will leave with this.... "Trust in the Lord with all you heart and lean not on your own understanding, in all your ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct your path.
Well, help me to fully and truly trust in you, help me not to draw my own conclusions, to rely on my own thoughts. In everything, make me ask for guidance and council, in the smallest of things let me depend on You for the answer and encouragement, in this, I know you will always give me truth for insight, you shall guide me on my path.
My wick is seemingly at the end again but for just a season, this too will pass. My flame will burn ever on, it shall never be put out!!!
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