🌿BREATHE TRUTH🌿
Soon afterward, Jesus went with His disciples to the village of Nain, and a large crowd followed Him. A funeral procession was coming out as He approached the village gate. The young man who had died was a widow’s only son, and a large crowd from the villa was with her. When the Lord saw her, His heart overflowed with compassion. “Don’t cry,” He said. —Luke 7:11-13
🌿LIVE THE REAL TRUTH🌿
Trains arrive and leave at specific times to ensure conveniences take place and crashes don’t occur. The schedule is set for the riders’ provision and protection. The rider knows what train to take to get to the final destination, yet concomitantly, the wrong train isn’t chosen. The timing is in place to minimize confusion and chaos. All for the good of the riders.
Likewise, God’s schedule encompasses a framework by which He greets and meets us, taking us to where His will is shaping our lives to the right places and shifting us away from the not-so-right spaces.
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No human coincidence or hurried concurrence.
This funeral procession is a train that this widow has gotten on not by choice. It is doing its job by taking her to the location she will bury her son. But it is just that, a mode of transport. Beware, beloved, of giving trains in your life more power than they deserve.
Other passengers are on the train with her. They are family and friends present for support, but they cannot meet her in the gut of her soul in her darkest hours. A prevailing darkness is persisting as she rides the train to her son’s final resting place this side of heaven.
Jesus and His disciples are entering the village of Nain. The widow is exiting the gates of Nain. At just the precise point of intersection, a Jesus interaction takes place. No human coincidence or hurried concurrence here. Had the funeral procession been a little earlier or later, the widow would have missed Jesus. But in God’s perfect schedule, her train pulls up to God’s station within perfect timing to encounter the glory of Christ. The compassion of Christ takes our brokenness and lights it up into a thousand resurrected lights. To tear down the walls of darkness for us to see life again and for others to see that darkness is nothing to God.
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Brokenness to wholeness.
What train are you on right now? A train of devastation, disappointment, discontentment, and dashed dreams? The station of God is coming up. Come out of your darkness and see God break through your brokenness into wholeness.
When we are overwhelmed, God overcomes. Never let it be said, when God arrives, He doesn’t arrive big.
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©️2019 Jordan Su