Salvation Assured THE MOUNTAIN OF TROUBLE
The way of transgression is hard. Prov. 13:15.
Another great mountain that God uses to prevent us from sliding downward is a mountain that is not created by Him, but He does make use of it. He will take us wherever He can find us. It's the mountain of the sorrows and troubles of life. Tears, heartache, pain, parting, funeral trains, separation, hospitals, all have a way of somehow driving us to our knees. God is not responsible for sorrows and troubles; the devil is. But often in this rea, the devil has met himself coming back. I believe firmly that if the devil had left me alone a long time ago, he could have had me. But he was so dumb that he kept needling me and trying to get me into the gutter, and this drove me to my knees. Have you ever had that happen? The devil is not happy just having people living apart from God; he wants them in the gutter, too. And in the process of trying to get some of us into the gutter, he drives us to find life with God. I don't like the world of sin in which I live. I don't like tears or pain or heartache. But sometimes when a person sings, "He washed my eyes with tears, that I might see,' " it makes some sense, doesn't it?
I've met people in great sorrow who did not regret the sorrow in a sense, because through it they had found a meaningful relationship with the Lord Jesus. I'm not sure who brings the tears, but I am sure about who it is that makes us see. And I'm thankful for the sight that comes when we wake up to the realization that there is no place else to go. In John 6, Jesus said to His disciples, Are you going to leave, too? And they said, We don't know where to go. There is no place else to go. Have you ever noticed, imprinted on the very countenance, the struggle and the fight that people who are trying to be lost are going through? Have you ever seen it? The furrowed brow, the lines in the face of the person who is trying to be lost.
Proverbs 13:15: "The way of transgression is..." Easy? No. It's hard. I believe that if I wanted to be lost someday, I'd have to go to a great deal of effort and trouble to do it. I reject the idea that the road to hell is paved with ice. God has made it as hard as possible for each one of us to be lost.
The way of transgression is hard. Prov. 13:15.
Another great mountain that God uses to prevent us from sliding downward is a mountain that is not created by Him, but He does make use of it. He will take us wherever He can find us. It's the mountain of the sorrows and troubles of life. Tears, heartache, pain, parting, funeral trains, separation, hospitals, all have a way of somehow driving us to our knees. God is not responsible for sorrows and troubles; the devil is. But often in this rea, the devil has met himself coming back. I believe firmly that if the devil had left me alone a long time ago, he could have had me. But he was so dumb that he kept needling me and trying to get me into the gutter, and this drove me to my knees. Have you ever had that happen? The devil is not happy just having people living apart from God; he wants them in the gutter, too. And in the process of trying to get some of us into the gutter, he drives us to find life with God. I don't like the world of sin in which I live. I don't like tears or pain or heartache. But sometimes when a person sings, "He washed my eyes with tears, that I might see,' " it makes some sense, doesn't it?
I've met people in great sorrow who did not regret the sorrow in a sense, because through it they had found a meaningful relationship with the Lord Jesus. I'm not sure who brings the tears, but I am sure about who it is that makes us see. And I'm thankful for the sight that comes when we wake up to the realization that there is no place else to go. In John 6, Jesus said to His disciples, Are you going to leave, too? And they said, We don't know where to go. There is no place else to go. Have you ever noticed, imprinted on the very countenance, the struggle and the fight that people who are trying to be lost are going through? Have you ever seen it? The furrowed brow, the lines in the face of the person who is trying to be lost.
Proverbs 13:15: "The way of transgression is..." Easy? No. It's hard. I believe that if I wanted to be lost someday, I'd have to go to a great deal of effort and trouble to do it. I reject the idea that the road to hell is paved with ice. God has made it as hard as possible for each one of us to be lost.
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