I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from enemies. The Lord lives and blessed be the rock. Let the God of my salvation be exalted.
The longer I live, the more sure I am that He is sovereign and to be exalted. He knows my going out and coming in and He knows exactly when and how to orchestrate people and events to His glory and majesty, while making these same things the best for His people in the end. I see it over and over. Sometimes the waiting hurts. Sometimes, I am not tracking with the order of His plans. Sometimes I wonder, momentarily, if He is seeing the evil in this world around me. Sometimes I doubt, but he supplants the doubt with both evidence and faith, when I am in His Word.
But even that waiting is good–building my faith and my tolerance-for-suffering or for persecution or for trials; and pointing out to me, in no uncertain terms, that He is sovereign and I am loved. There are certain points in which I cannot know if the answer is imminent or reserved–if the comfort is just around the bend in this road or in eternity. But I do now that the God of all comfort has my advocate at His right hand. My high priest is right there in the Holy of holies for Cindy Colley, personally.
The One who wore the crown of thorns has exchanged it for His crowned position on the right hand of my Father’s throne. MY Father! It’s how I begin my prayers and it is still utterly amazing to me that I can call the God of the universe my own Father. He pities me in the way that Glenn has shown compassion over and over to our biological children; only He does it flawlessly.
Tonight in the podcast, we will see Jesus as the temple visionary. We will see Him as the chief cornerstone, the builder, the foundation, the veil tearer, the sacrifice on the altar, the high priest and the manna. We will see Him in all these temple places and we will remember that we are living stones. I want to stay near the chief cornerstone by which the plumb line of righteousness has been set. May I always call upon the Lord.
You will experience days in your life that are monumental for your eternity’s destination. On those days, may you be in a safe place. May you be a stone in the building, aligned with the chief cornerstone, rather than a stumbling block in the path of those who may be searching for His holy temple, the church.
