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August 23, 2022 8:00 pm
The impala, a member of the antelope family, is able to jump up to ten feet high and thirty feet in length. It’s an incredible feat, and no doubt essential to its survival in the African wild. Yet, at many impala enclosures found in zoos, you’ll find that the animals are kept in place by a wall that’s merely three feet tall. How can such a low wall contain these athletic animals? It works because impalas will never jump unless they can see where they’ll land. The wall keeps the impalas inside the enclosure because they can’t see what is on the other side.
As humans, we’re not all that different. We want to know the outcome of a situation before we move forward. The life of faith, however, rarely works that way. Writing to the church at Corinth, Paul reminds them, “We live by faith, not by sight” (2 Corinthians 5:7).
Jesus taught us to pray, “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). But that doesn’t mean we’ll know His outcomes beforehand. Living by faith means trusting His good purposes even when those purposes are shrouded in mystery.
In the midst of life’s uncertainties, we can trust His unfailing love. No matter what life throws at us, “we make it our goal to please him” (2 Corinthians 5:9).
Today's encouragement from our daily for Bill Crowder and untitled are reading landing spot the Impala, a member of the antelope family is able to jump up to 10 feet high and 30 feet in length.
It's an incredible feat, and no doubt essential to its survival and the African wild yet in many Impala enclosures found in zoos, you'll find that the animals are kept in place by a wall that's merely 3 feet tall.
How can such a low wall contain these athletic animals it works because Impala's will never jump unless they can see where the land, the law keeps the Impala's inside the enclosure because they can't see what's on the other side. As humans were not all that different. We want to know the outcome of the situation before we move forward life of faith, however rarely works that way. Writing to the church at Corinth, Paul reminded them we live by faith not by sight. Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew six, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. But that doesn't mean will know his outcomes beforehand.
Living by faith means trusting his good purposes even when those purposes are shrouded in mystery.
In the midst of life's uncertainties.
We can trust his unfailing love no matter what life throws at us. We can make it our goal to please him.
Today's Our Daily Bread devotional Scripture reading is from second Corinthians chapter 5 verses six through 10. Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we live by faith not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad, but spray so often. Father were frozen by uncertainty and fear. We pray that you will guide our steps in the way you would have us to go trusting you for your goodwill to be done in Jesus name we pray.
Amen. Today's encouragement was provided by Our Daily Bread ministries
