Wednesday Reflection, September 30, 2020

Wednesday Reflection, September 30, 2020

Unwavering Faith

Make us strong, Lord, and help us to stand firm against temptation and wrong. Make us watchful, so that we may never be taken unawares. Make us ready to place ourselves in your hands, so that we may know your power. May we take to ourselves the whole armour of God, after the example of Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever.

Dearly beloved, I greet you well. As today marks the end of September, I pray that this reflection will help some of us to realign our belief, our trust, our confidence in the Lord God; enabling us to have and to maintain unwavering faith.

Daily I meet people who just can’t wait for 2020 to end. They lament about how awful this year has been and about all that has gone wrong. Their downfalls, disappointments and setbacks.

Perhaps, you too have simply had rotten luck this year right? No! Brothers and sisters, of this one thing I am confident, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Yes, there appears to be trouble on every side, and yes things appear to be going from bad to worse but remember that the trying of our faith brings about patience and that the believer ought to glory in tribulations.

Much of what I have said is so much easier said than done. We know the scriptures but it is ever a challenge to put them into practice. Jesus knew that we would struggle and that our limitations would seek to overtake us which is why He gave us the Holy Spirit the comforter to guide us or keep us grounded when we feel most lost/alone.

In today’s watchword, the psalmist affirms, “I kept the faith, even when I said, ‘I am greatly afflicted’. Psalm 116:10
Friends, the troubles of the world we live in will constantly seek to oppress us but James 1:2 reminds us, ‘blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

In closing, I join with LM Mills in praying, ‘Father, hear the prayer we offer; not for ease that prayer shall be, but for strength that we may ever live our lives courageously.

Be our strength in hours of weakness, in our wanderings be our guide; through endeavor, failure, danger,
Father, be thou at our side.’

Amen

Kerone Lamoth