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Gods Gift - My Time On Patmos
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Mar 5, 2007 2:50 am
Mood: contemplative,
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Matthew28:20And surely I am with you always,to
the very end of age.
A few years ago their was a split in the church
I had gone to for many years.Most of my friends left,and I was left without any good friends or fellowship.At the same time a person I had been seeing broke up with me.I do value my quiet time
but I value fellowship even more.Oh! I had friends in the secular world,but their is nothing like a close friend in the spirit.Things didn't seem to be going well on the home front either.I usually handle adversity pretty well yet I was beginning to feel really lost and lonely especially in the church.I said to myself
"I feel like John exiled to Patmos".
That's when I found I had not lost all my friends but had a special one who would never leave or forsake me!
It was tough going at first yet God drew me closer to Him.I prayed to God,I read His Word a
lot more,I talked to Him and listened and learned more about His nature than I had ever known before.His Holy Spirit enabled me to write
some of my best Christian poetry.God was able to take a disheartening time in my life and turn it
into joy.I stopped feeling lonely and grew to seek Gods will in my life.As I spent more time with Him,I grew to love Him more and more.
You see,if God hadn't taken the time to exile me to my Patmos,I wouldn't have grown in His spirit.I wouldn't have learned the lessons He wanted to teach me.I wouldn't have been inspired to write what God wanted me to say.
Like John,I now know I can be content in any situation as long as I keep a God centered focus on my life and thoughts and am open to His leading the way.
What do you do when you are exiled to Patmos?
Do you feel sorry for yourself?or do you do as John did,"turn around and look up"!
John16:12-13I have much more to say to you,more than you can now hear,but when the SPIRIT OF TRUTH comes,He will guide you into all truth.
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