In A Flat-Spin

"In A Flat-Spin"

Scripture Reading:
Job 6:4  Surely the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks their poison.  God's terrors are arrayed against me.

Devotional Reading:

The twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are deeply rooted in Biblical authority. These steps that have helped millions were conceived when two recovering alcoholics from Akron, Ohio, hit bottom, and began to seek spiritual solutions for their battle. The first step to stop drinking: you have to hit bottom to wake up and realize you are in real trouble. Job 6 is the sound of a man hitting bottom. The book written about a man who on the surface lost everything. It records the suffering, the penalty, the incredible loneliness, and the confession of a wretched man.  I wonder how many today would read his words and say, “This is my song. This is my life?” Healing begins when a man or woman is able to say, “My life is unmanageable. I’m in a flat spin, and I cannot recover on my own power.” But because we are so intent on trying to maintain control and present an untarnished image, this is difficult to do. Instead, many of us wind up trying to exercise control over others, too, using money, anger, helplessness or other forms of dysfunction. Amazingly, we even try to control God. Isn’t it ironic that the way to victory is not to maintain control, but to acknowledge we have lost it . . . or never had it at all?  When you come out of the flat-spin, you realize the answer to suffering, is the answerer:  our Lord Jesus Christ.  If you know Him, He'll get you through it!  If you don't, "would you like to meet Him"?

Keep the Son in your eyes,

Pastor Ben J Lahay

Galatians 2:20