What Drives a Driver
© by Christine Huck
Where
in Proverbs 24:16 it says, “For a just man falleth seven times, and
riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief,” I was going
to put it to the test. Like a cat with nine lives, I approached church
to take my place in the great congregation, but did not have the
capacity (character, will, strength, power) to stay. I knew I was in
position for blessing, but each time, and for many reasons, I fell. This
last time, the fall was so great I didn’t know if I could recover. Yet,
like the Prodigal Son, who remembers his home, family and place, I set
my heart to return. Although, for me, returning was not going to be as
easy, not this time. God was going to have His way.
He said to me, “Remember the things I did for you in the past. The
Devil cannot take these away. Begin to build on these principals and
revelations of truth. If you do, you will never fall again.” So I did. I
started remembering. I remembered the dream I had back in the early
‘80s where I died, my spirit left my body and I began to fly in the
stars telling Jesus, “I’m coming home, Jesus. I’m coming home.” Since, I
never questioned my salvation. Never! The issues I struggled with were
not about salvation, they were instead about being sanctified. To be
sanctified is to be made holy. It is to give or be given an official
acceptance or approval. Do I have that? Not fully by men, but I do in my
relationship with God.
One day, I was feeling aches and pains in
my body and was thinking the worse. I thought, maybe I opened the door
to infirmity, again. It felt to me like an affliction, something put on
me for cause or reason. I thought, I better pray about it. As soon as I
did that, as soon as I thought that, the Lord spoke in my ear, “It Is
Well With My Soul.” I became encouraged through the lyrics of this song
written by Philip Bliss (1838-1876). For different reasons, he wrote it
during great personal trial after suffering great personal loss, finally
coming to the conclusion, “It is well with my soul.” Surprised, I
thought, Oh! I need to rethink this. After that I changed my mind and
started focusing on healing and health. Like a rudder fixed, my ship is
going in the direction of the promises of God. I will not settle for
less, even in the face of accusation. I am fixed.
Which leads me
to these conclusions: God has a purpose and a plan for His children
(Jeremiah 29:11). In the face of failure and defeat, all these things
work together for good to them who are called according to His purpose
(Romans 8:28). He will not be mocked by me, nor my naysayers (Galatians
6:7). He has not only taught me principals to live by (Psalm 32:8), but
the blueprint in which we are being built (1 Peter 2:5), becoming His
glorious temple. We are the Temple of God, a dwelling place for the
Most High (Ephesians 2:21). To make us His home and walk in His glory,
we must first be changed into the image of His Son, Jesus Christ (2
Corinthians 3:18). Nothing he did, Jesus, was apart from the will of his
Father in heaven (John 14:10). Jesus taught us, God made a way for us,
and by the indwelling Spirit (John 14:26), we too can be one with God
(John 17:21).
We read in the fourteenth chapter in the Gospel of
John, speaking to His disciples before he was taken away by the guards,
he said, “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe
also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I
would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also.” He then later says, “But the
Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my
name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace I leave with you, my
peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let
not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
Once
contrary to the words of Jesus in regards to the condition of my heart;
now at peace and ready to give back to my Father in Heaven, the very
gifts of His mercy and love, which were manifested in the dark difficult
days of my life. Always present, always loving, always speaking truth.
Do I dare do the same? This is my confession: “When I was a child, I
spake as a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a child: but
when I became a man [fully developed], I put away childish things. For
now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know
in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” Like my once
Pastor in the Lord use to say, “Do I get an AMEN?”
Follow me as I
follow the Lord (1 Corinthians 11:1). “That the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him: The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what
the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, And what is
the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according
to the working of his mighty power, Which he wrought in Christ, when he
raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the
heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also
in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and
gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his
body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.”
AMEN
Sister Christine
