2 Timothy 3:16, 17 says, “ALL scripture is God Breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

My honest assessment of the situation is this… I think I am in training… in fact, I’m pretty certain of it!

You know, there is so much truth in saying that in ALL circumstances, it is so imperative to stay in the Word and pray without ceasing… I mean WITHOUT ceasing!

As difficult as circumstances may be and no matter how hard the wind and rain rock me… I am fully anchored by my Cornerstone… Christ Jesus!

Our current storm, if you will, is pretty loud… and yet… I am more at peace than I ever have been! How is this possible, you may be asking? I see God moving in and around my life in ways that can only mean that I am fully in HIS hands! 

Things are so rocky and uncertain that it often feels like I’m walking on a razors edge, with cliffs and darkness all around, save for the light I carry. Of late, I’ve been ravenously consuming passages from all corners of the Bible. From the book of Revelations, Job, much of the New Testament, and back and forth in Psalms, I am now entering into the book of Romans. I am 55 years old and for the first time in my adult life, I am learning that indeed there IS Power in staying beneath the Father’s shadow, steadily reading the pages of His word… over and over and over and over again!

Moment by moment, step by step, I am going to continue walking forward in obedience and faith, regardless of the outcome! Yup! I said, regardless! In all my readings, not once have I encountered a verse that said I would become invincible, nor did it reflect a life of ease coming down the pike for those who follow God… point in fact, it says quite often that we would have difficulties. Don’t get me wrong… getting INTO heaven is easy because Jesus did the hard part there! It’s the getting there part that takes effort… not in works, mind you, just in faithful obedience. And *Spoiler Alert*, we do get an E for effort!

When we get home, is the place that Perfecting happens! Until then, we are washed and covered in His blood, because we will never attain or overcome that which He has already done for us! 2 Timothy reminds me that the Bible has all that I need to get me home, not just to look at and read when I feel like it… it is my Manna, my bread of life, for my journey home! If I ate everything on the first day of the trip, I’d starve by the time I got even half way home! 

As with Manna, hoarding and simply carrying it with me spoils its contents… I need it fresh each day, taking only that which is fully offered for my “teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness”, sustaining me for that day, so that I’m able to walk on in faith towards the blessings that are ahead.

Knowing me, on the day He calls me heavenward, everyone will see an old rickety RV pulling up to the gates of Heaven and then hear one of those AWOOOGA horns begin to honk, announcing my sheer Joy at being HOME!

As I stand now in the Eye of yet another storm, I will not be shaken, nor will I falter! I am carried by the Righteous Right Hand of my Creator!