The Discipline of Disillusionment
This sharing is from a Titus 2 woman. She is Tamie. In her late 40s. She moderates a Ladies' Christian e-group and she shares very regularly in the group. I just read her last sharing before she evacuated her home at 9am, Sunday morning.Think this is what I have to go through for this season of life and learning.
Disillusionment really tries to wreak havoc in our lives!
Listen to this sweet little poem...
REFLECTIONS
I thank God for the bitter things;
They've been a 'friend to grace';
They've driven me from the paths of ease
To storm the secret place.
I thank Him for the friends who failed
To fill my heart's deep need;
They've driven me to the Saviour's feet,
Upon His love to feed.
I'm grateful too, through all life's way
No one could satisfy,
And so I've found in God alone
My rich, my full supply!
Florence White Willett
Can there be a discipline of Disillusionment?
Oooooooooh you BET! Ladies what assurance had we that the results of our obedience and sacrifice would be happy?
For that matter what assurance had the disciples? They had left EVERYTHING that mattered to them... jobs, family, position to do what? To FOLLOW the One they believed to be the Messiah! But what happened? He DIED! Yes...for those 3 incredibly LONG days He was GONE.
Can you imagine how disillusioned they must have felt?
May I share a little more from 'The Disciplines of Life'?
"The same situation is true as relating to others. Their love had filled our hearts with laughter, their devotion had been our delight, their thoughtfulness had thrilled us, their presence was protection to us, and their person peace.
Then came the forgetting, the failure, the forsaking; all to our fear and fainting of heart.
Because they were human, they were subject to frailty, even with the best intentions; and because we are human, we suffered because of their failure.
Without them life had neither meaning nor motivation, love nor laughter. We were disillusioned. To face fully the fearful fact of utter loss is the first phase ofthe discipline of disillusionment.
Nothing remains. The Emmaus road, with its disheartened and disillusioned disciples seems ever to have been the portion of God's children all down the ages; yet happy are they who learn its deep discipline...To find that God's hard word is not His last word, that "weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning: (Ps. 30:5) is the second phase of the discipline of disillusionment.
No careless pruner is He,
Who spoils the vine;
no diffirent refiner of silver.
For loss He would give us fruit, for dross, silver;
far beyond our fondest fancy...
And for us, in our despair and disillusionment, what provision does He make?
Restoration of lost hopes and loved ones like Isaac, with larger promises and deeper acquaintance with Jehovah-jireh, the Lord Who provides; perhaps new blessings, undreamed in our night of sorrow, like Boaz and Obed and the Babe of Bethlehem; perhaps the burning of heart because of His Word and the breaking of bread with us day by day in life's pilgrimage.
Disillusionment, designed by the Most High for our good, leads to delight, indescribable and enduring.
It is a searching discipline of the soul. It leads to sorrow, suffering, silence and solitude, to the apparently utter loss of the Cross; but beyond that Cross it leads to everlasting gain and good, in time and in eternity.
Therefore, let us follow Him fearlessly, obediently, trustingly, until disillusionment is dissolved by delight.
"PRAISE His name for EVER more!!! What the enemy 'thought' he could use against us... our LORD will RAISE it up as a discipline that wil ldraw us into HIS presence!!! "
Woooohooooooooooo! Lift up your heads dear ones. LISTEN for the Spirit of the Living God is speaking TO YOU. TRUST Him as He continues to lead and guide YOU for you are PRECIOUS to Him!
Loads of love,Tamie
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Amen. So be it.
Love,
Jesselyn Ng
posted by Jesselyn Ng @ 1:06 AM
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