Whispers of His Power - 30 Days of InspirationEsimerkki

Our Appointed Lot

Have you difficulties? "They are our appointed lot." Have you trials? "They are our appointed lot."

Those five words were written to people who might any day find themselves in prison, tortured, lonely, oppressed. Here, if we have to have a tooth out, we have an injection. There was no injection for the Christians of Thessalonica. Let us not forget that when we are tempted to fuss over trifles and call things trials which are mere nothings.

Still, there are trials sometimes, and they may look very big. But "they are our appointed lot"—we were never promised ease. The early Christians were not taught to expect it. Don’t let us slip into the expectation of the easy. It isn’t our appointed lot.

But for us, there is always another word: "My grace is sufficient for thee" (2 Cor. 12:9).