Ruach Breath Of Life

It can be tempting to put Biblical characters – as well as certain high-profile believers through – on a pedestal as we consider their great exploits and compare them with our own. But, as James writes concerning Elijah, they are people ‘just like us, and . . .’ (Jas. 5:17) I love that ‘and!’ Think of all God adds when we turn and seek Him! David is another such. Like many of us, he had to pass through many bleak and barren wildernesses, and knew His sustaining power even as the pressures piled on, and his life appeared on more than one occasion to be hanging by a mere thread, as the choices and decisions he had made over many years were all illumined by the stark desert light, that was itself a picture of God’s eternal searchlight. Whether as the result of some acute peril, or through the sheer monotony of life in the wilderness, there are crunch times when our human resources seem totally insufficient for the situation that we are facing. But never forget the ‘and.’ The Almighty God is always our refuge a