Lord, You are teaching me that I must always live my life between brackets. No condition of my life is ever permanent. God brings about every condition; He also ends every one. If I am in sorrow today, God will bring me out of it tomorrow. If I am blessed with material things today, that does not mean I can expect to be rich tomorrow.
Why does God give us changing, altering conditions? I think it is to give us balance. God does not want one-track minds in His Kingdom. Too much wealth leads us to “trust in uncertain riches” (1 Timothy 6:17, KJV). Too much sorrow leads us to despair. The combination is just right. The land to which the Israelites were traveling was “a land of hills and valleys” (Deuteronomy 11:11) There cannot be hills without valleys.
That comforts me, Lord. The distressing situation that nags and embarrasses me today must give way to something better (or at least different). Patience says, “Wait. God will set it right.” The ecstasy of God’s blessings must be received with a sober thought; tomorrow it will be gone.
Now I see what Your Word means when it says Moses “endured, as seeing him who is invisible” (Hebrews 11:27, KJV). It is in seeing the invisible One that I keep myself in perfect balance. I cannot endure seeing my brief, ever changing circumstances. I can endure only by looking to the One who ends those circumstances at will. Lord, my vow is this: I will patiently look to the only constant and reality in my life—God Himself. Then I will understand what the psalmist said: “The Lord will perfect [bring to terminus] that which concerneth me” (Psalm 138:8, KJV).
“And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God has led you in the wilderness these forty years, that He might humble you, testing you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not” (Deuteronomy 8:2).
Daily with the King 