Tested By God's Hidden Ways & Working.

Tested By God's Hidden Ways & Working.

God often hides himself to test our pursuit/ seeking of Him; to reward us, if against all odds, we diligently and relentlessly seek Him.
When God raises up a corporate vessel to represent & bring in a greater fullness of His Son in a time of intense/dire spiritual need, such a company goes through strange & unusual ways of testing, of perplexity, of adversity, of strain, and ofttimes it's position seems to be an impossible one.

You know that under certain conditions of pressure you are tempted to question even what the Lord has said to you.
Often your mind could be assailed with thoughts of doubt & querries of unbelief like: "have i been deceived? Am I holding unto an illusion? Nothing seems to be happening, there seems to be no tangible development; I am getting older & older, and even the promises of God do not seem to be fulfilled."

The ways & workings of God in a time of transition are hidden; no physical signs or vestiges, nothing at all that physically speaks of a mighty move and work of God.
It is thus the most testing thing to be able to live through and live on in a time of transition, when it seems that God is doing nothing about the thing you have been hoping for and talking about. The signs are all hidden, the ways of God are beyond our finding out: "his way is in the sea, his path in the great waters, and his footsteps are not known". We can only be led and taken along by his HolySpirit, who searches all things, yea the deep things of God; thus, our focus and attention should be on cultivating absolute trust and dependence on the HolySpirit in communion and in every detail of our life & existence.
Psalm 77:19; Romans 11:33; 1 Corinthians 2:10-11; John 16:12-13.

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