Psalm 16:5 is one of my life
verses now. 'Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup and have made my
lot secure.' My 'lot' is what happens to me - my share of that which comes by
the will of the Power that rules my destiny. My lot includes the circumstances
of my birth, my upbringing, my job, my hardships, the people I work with, my
marital status, hindrances, obstacles, accidents and opportunities.
Everything constitutes my lot. Nothing excepted......
One morning my computer simply
would not obey me. What a nuisance. I had my work laid out, my timing figured,
my mind all set. My work was delayed, my timing thrown off, my thinking
interrupted. Then I remembered. It was not for nothing. This was part of the
Plan (not mine, His). 'Lord, You have assigned me my portion and my cup.' Now
if the interruption had been a human being instead of an infuriating mechanism,
it would not have been so hard to see it as the most important part of the work
of the day. But all is under my Father's control: yes, recalcitrant computers, faulty
transmissions, drawbridges that happen to be up when I am in a hurry. My portion. My cup. My lot
is secure. My heart can be at peace. My Father is in charge. How
simple!......God came down and lived in this world as a man. He showed us how
to live in this world, subject to its vicissitudes and necessities, that we
might be changed, not into angels or storybook princesses, not wafted into
another world, but changed into saints in this world. The secret is Christ in
me, not a different set of circumstances.
Elisabeth
Elliot
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