This will be

your opportunity

  to bear witness.

       Luke 21. 13

(Do we see our struggles

and dilemmas

and opposition that way?

To love God

and respond to Him?

To love others

     into the Kingdom?

How would we approach

    this differently

if we realized there was

    deeper purpose in it

and this was meant

        to bear witness?

This situation

did not go wrong after all,

    just not our way,

but opened perhaps

an impossible door

            for the gospel.

God does not just

turn a bad situation around,

but points us to

    His designs in it.

Others are always watching

to see how we respond

when things go well

and when they are tough,

to see if we indeed

we have been changed

               by Him

and if there is any

    difference in us.)

 

O LORD,

We cannot yet know

what we will face today,

        but You do.

Help us to see

every situation as

    a divine appointment

to bear witness

to Your love and grace,

forgiveness and hope.

Strengthen us

to not shy away

        from what is hard

or to be identified

                  as Yours.

Grant us

   overflowing pockets

   of grace to others

and eyes to see

people who are

   desperate for You,

even if they do not

appear that way

          on the surface.