The Key To Living Above The Problems Of Life
The title to this word should be enough to let you know that this article is not going to answer such a statement conclusively. Well, I suppose I could write the Key is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. That is true. But an explanation on how to have that work out in our lives is much broader. Many have written this is the key or that is the key to living a victorious life (again, defined many ways by many people). What I am trying to address is how we can maintain peace in the midst of a life full of troubles on every hand. To somehow suggest to God’s people that they can be free from trouble and disturbances, is to mislead them. It is to show them the way to living in a spiritual la la land. It is delusional at best. No. The believer’s life is full of heart breaking experiences as well as life’s small, but perpetually bothersome agitations. Yet, we are offered in Christ a life that is marked by peace in our souls. “Thou wilt keep in him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee,” Isaiah writes. “And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus,”: Paul writes. How can this be applied and developed in our lives? As you are aware, an aged saint passed from his world to be with the Lord recently. As I listened to the many testimonies in her honor at the funeral service, the following came to my mind. I must add it came as I was writing my sister in the midst of her having 7 friends/acquaintances die within 3 weeks. In trying to say words to her that might help her soul, the testimony of Vivian came to mind. What gave her the presence and true sense of “it will be all right and everything will work so let us trust the Lord?” Two things came to mind. Her life exemplified these two things among others. I believe the key to her being able to live “above” the problems of life (she was mostly blind and deaf) was she memorized God’s Word and she prayed without ceasing. There then is a two fold key to living above the problems of life for those in Christ. Be always memorizing and maintaining what we have memorize of God’s Word (for it is His means of speaking peace to our hearts) and be ever praying, making all things/problems known to him in prayer. Memorizing God’s Word and praying without ceasing were two of the keys to Vivian’s ability to live “above” the problems of life. Let us follow her example, dear troubled saint. Herein learn to rest in the Lord. See to it and you will find His presence and power in ways that will fill your soul with a foretaste of heaven. You will find they are truly are a God given means of living above the problems of this life.