Life in the Tunnel - "Oh God Where is the Light!?"

I think that today's devotional from Murray's Waiting on God is my favorite. It is Day 14 and is titled "The Way to The New Song." If you find that you are living life in a dark tunnel looking for the end and the light, then I suggest that you go and read in full what Murray has to say.

Murray speaks from personal experience when he shares that patience and suffering are firmly linked both in language and in biblical teaching. However, Murray then notes that it is God who gives His children the strength to wait, to practice patience, to suffer as we look to God for deliverance.  He shares, "Have you ever noticed what proof we have that patience is a grace for which very special grace is given, in these words of Paul: 'Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all' - what? 'patience and long-suffering with joyfulness.' Yes, we need to be strengthened with all God’s might, and that according to the measure of His glorious power, if we are to wait on God in all patience. It is God revealing Himself in us as our life and strength that will enable us with perfect patience to leave all in His hands."

I am thinking of many that even now are in the dark tunnel of life. To them it seems that there is no end in sight. They long to round the bend and see the promised light.  But still they press on. And still there is only darkness.  Murray's words give hope and a promise - that there is an end and at that at that end God will give all those who endure a new song. So my friends start humming and warming up the vocal chords; for soon you will be singing anew.

Murray's devotional is posted here. Go down to day 14 and read his insights.

-Mark