The heart is the well spring of life...so it should be of no surprise to us when the enemy uses the most inopportune times to fire arrows into that heart. In an effort to deplete it of the very thing that was so difficult to obtain. Grace and Margin for those times my friends is the prayer.
Someone asked me yesterday what brought on this post on my Facebook this week. Actually I think it's been a culmination of many months of thoughts, decisions, and life lived.
Really why do we get surprised when we face a big hurdle and the tide seems to be against us? I used to get very frustrated. Almost feeling that I was getting ripped off in those times. I mean I was doing what I knew to do as right ...but the arrows came still the same.
Jesus had great concern for the matters of the heart ...He knew that this was the battleground for the enemy. Matthew 5:8 in The Message "You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world."
So I find myself asking for what I call margin. Just that space ...filled with grace and mercy. For when the arrows come ...cause they will. So we can't lose heart ...stand in that grace ...the margin. That's really where for me, Faith meets reality.
