Making the Most from our Micah Man #1

Wanted to update you first on our Micah Man... He is resting well except for when we have had to move him, Luke & I are probably going to be camping out downstairs in efforts not to make Micah uncomfortable. He has said only a handful of words since Sun., his steroids are being decreased (he still is on a decent amount) just recently seems to weak to hold his cup and his drinking has slowed tremendously.
We are kissing on him, singing and just enjoying holding his hand~ As Always, thanks for your prayers

Making the Most from Our Micah Man, part 1~

We will make the most from our Micah Man if in our time of affliction we don't distance ourselves from God.

“Let us with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb 4.16) for we have a mighty Savior who bore our griefs and carried our sorrows (Is 53). He is able to sympathize with our weaknesses, and our temptations yet was without sin (Heb 4.15). He deals gently with the weak because He Himself is beset with weakness (Heb 5.2). Therefore let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith (Heb 10.22) knowing that our suffering Savior welcomes His suffering children in their time of need.

One of the quotes that has served most deeply during this time is from a friend of Robert Dabney’s writing to comfort him in the loss of his 2 young sons, “My heart is sad for you, my brother. Your two bright and noble boys, both gone! What a grief! What an overwhelming sorrow! God is in this matter, moving amid the cloud and darkness of a throne which is nevertheless all spotless and full of glory. It is a case in which you must trust God, and trust him utterly. This is easy to say, but in the intensity and great force of the conditions which agitate your heart, it is no doubt difficult for you to see into the full significance, the deep and powerful force of the idea. Yet there is, for all that, a ground for your trusting in him, though he slay you... Have you questioned whether God could deal with you like this if you were his child? If you have, it is a natural, but not a sound conclusion. Was not Job beloved of God at the very time when his children perished? Do not give up your trust in him; wait, bow, submit—submit even to bear the rage of your own unbelief, and say to him, "Even amid my agony, yet I will trust in thee, though thou slay me,too."I do hope and pray that God may give you grace to exercise a faith which will humble, comfort and cheer your inmost soul. But if you cannot so believe, at least lay your hands on your bleeding and darkened spirit, and drag it along the way of duty. Follow the Master's will, in comfort if you can, but follow it. He will bring you out into a pleasant place in his own time.”

Oh to drag it along the way of duty, in comfort if we can…. follow- follow near, follow close, follow hard. Dabney experienced communion with God amidst significant trial and affliction. He would bury 3 of his beloved boys, yet the Lord would be his light and comfort even through a valley of weeping. Dabney wrote: “Our parting is not for long. As for my other loved ones, whom I see exposed to disease and death, I know that death cannot touch them unless my Heavenly Father, who orders everything for me in love and wisdom, sees it best. So I can trust them, though trembling, to his keeping and be at peace. Our little one, we hope and trust is now a ransomed spirit…This a hope inexpressible and full of glory”

It is only in God that we will find our supreme comfort during times of suffering and affliction. Dabney drew near to God in the midst of his many journeys through the valley of weeping and he found light, comfort and freedom.

God invites us to find and experience the same. We will make the most from our Micah Man if we draw near to God.

“In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. He brought me out into a broad place; he rescued me, because he delighted in me (Psalm 18.6,19).”

* Used and modified with permission from Jon & Jenni Smith. Thanks Joe for helping!