YOU CAN MAKE IT!

Years ago when we were on our first trip to Colorado, we were told, "You must see the Cave of the Winds." So you do what you have to do! We headed up the canyon, but we soon reached a place where the road disappeared! The canyon walls closed in, and there was the end - or so it seemed.

Then we saw a large sign right on the canyon wall where the road seemed to end, announcing in bold letters, "You can make it. Thousands of others have." As we eased forward, we could see that there was a turn in the roadway; then a little farther on, an open stretch before us; and we proceeded on our way without difficulty. When we got far enough along, we saw what we could not see earlier. It's like the Prophet Hosea said, "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord." Things in this road of life are not always what they seem to be. We must trust the one who makes out our path and believe that when we arrive at the point of need, the help we need will be there.

The sign on the stone was right, and it bears a perpetual message - "You can make it." You can travel any road where God sends you. You can bear any load He places on you. God doesn't make foolish or impossible demands of anyone. His commands and promises are enablements. Blessed is the person who has learned this and loves God enough to put it into practical living. When the angel of the Lord wakened Peter from sleep that night in prison and said, "Follow me," it was the angel's responsibility to open the doors.

You can find encouragement in reading Isaiah chapter 42 and 43, and in noting the many times of positive assertion as the Lord said, "I will." Here are some of them, "I the Lord ... will hold thine hand, and will keep thee ... I will lead them in path that they have not known: I will make darkness light ... and crooked things straight ... I will be with thee ... I will even make a way." Rejoice with me in that! "I will even make a way." Then our Lord Jesus said, " I am the way."

There's no doubt about it! "You can make it, Thousands of others have.

Previously published in the Gems of Truth by Herald and Banner Press, Overland Park, Kansas http://www.heraldandbanner.com/