BBD 02.23.18 Flushed! (Classic)

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Posted by: wrathered <wrathered@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

23 February 2018

Flushed!

Therefore
humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due
time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. - 1 Peter 5:6-8
NKJV.

Daniel
Collins may not have been literally flushed down the toilet, but he might as
well have been. Daniel was working on the Raymore, Missouri sewage system as
part of a crew employed by Rosetta Construction. Usually the work is safe, and
he had a safety line hooked to him. The trouble for the worker began when that
safety line somehow became detached, and he was suddenly plunged down a pipe
only 27 inches wide. He kept going down that pipe for more than a mile.
Meanwhile, his fellow workers and firefighters were frantically searching for
him. Daniel was able to call out one last time loud enough for someone to find
him. One of the firefighters, who is also a paramedic, heard Daniel and was
able to bring him to safety. The man had bruises and may have swallowed some of
the nasty water; but everyone believes it is miraculous for him to be alive,
and in such good physical shape.

Daniel did at least a couple of things right during his ordeal that helped
him to survive. He did not give up, and he kept on calling out believing that
someone would hear him and come to his rescue. If Daniel had given up on the
hope of rescue any sooner, he might never have been found. If he had believed
that dying in the sewer pipe was going to happen whether he called for help or
not – then, it would likely have been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

At times, you may find yourself in a situation in life that feels like you
have been flushed down a toilet or worse. However, it is doubtful that a
situation like that, is God's permanent will for your life. Some of God's
greatest servants did go through some horrifically difficult periods of time in
their lives. Moses for years hid out as a fugitive on the backside of the
desert and thought that he was doomed to live out the rest of his life that way
herding sheep. Elijah was so depressed that he was just going to lay down and
die. King David was living for a while in a cave being hunted like an animal.
Gideon thought that he was the lowest person in the social hierarchy of his
entire nation; being of the smallest tribe, and the smallest family of the
tribe, and the smallest or weakest person in his family. Moses, Elijah, David,
and Gideon were all wrong in their perceptions of their real situation in life.
God had more for all of them to do. In God's timing, He lifted them up to serve
in greater and more powerful ways.

God wants to use you in a greater and more powerful way. How do you arrive
at that point when God calls you up from the reserves, and puts you on the
front lines? Number one, is that you simply refuse to give up on God. You keep
believing, keep trusting, keep doing what you know is right and good. You keep
reading your Bible, keep on going to church, keep on praying, keep on serving
in whatever way that you can. What you are doing is humbling yourself before
God, accepting what He has for your life. Then, at a time, and possibly at a
place you least expect it, when you have almost given up – God will “exalt you
in due time.” I like the way the NIV puts this, that God will “lift you up
in due time.” That is what God did for Joseph in the Old Testament. Joseph
stayed the course, stayed faithful no matter how miserable his life situation
became, and God lifted him up to be the prime minister of the nation of Egypt.

Humble yourself under God's hand, stay faithful, and He will lift you up;
exalt you, when the right time comes.

Copyright © 2010 - 2018. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
20 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for healing
for Michelle Abetz, Thelma Lewis and her sister Denise, Brandy, Damon D. &
wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary and Glenna Kirk, Amy
Carroll, Caleb Freeman, Chris Ramber, Toby, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

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Posted by: wrathered <wrathered@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

23 February 2018

Flushed!

Therefore
humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due
time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. - 1 Peter 5:6-8
NKJV.

Daniel
Collins may not have been literally flushed down the toilet, but he might as
well have been. Daniel was working on the Raymore, Missouri sewage system as
part of a crew employed by Rosetta Construction. Usually the work is safe, and
he had a safety line hooked to him. The trouble for the worker began when that
safety line somehow became detached, and he was suddenly plunged down a pipe
only 27 inches wide. He kept going down that pipe for more than a mile.
Meanwhile, his fellow workers and firefighters were frantically searching for
him. Daniel was able to call out one last time loud enough for someone to find
him. One of the firefighters, who is also a paramedic, heard Daniel and was
able to bring him to safety. The man had bruises and may have swallowed some of
the nasty water; but everyone believes it is miraculous for him to be alive,
and in such good physical shape.

Daniel did at least a couple of things right during his ordeal that helped
him to survive. He did not give up, and he kept on calling out believing that
someone would hear him and come to his rescue. If Daniel had given up on the
hope of rescue any sooner, he might never have been found. If he had believed
that dying in the sewer pipe was going to happen whether he called for help or
not – then, it would likely have been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

At times, you may find yourself in a situation in life that feels like you
have been flushed down a toilet or worse. However, it is doubtful that a
situation like that, is God's permanent will for your life. Some of God's
greatest servants did go through some horrifically difficult periods of time in
their lives. Moses for years hid out as a fugitive on the backside of the
desert and thought that he was doomed to live out the rest of his life that way
herding sheep. Elijah was so depressed that he was just going to lay down and
die. King David was living for a while in a cave being hunted like an animal.
Gideon thought that he was the lowest person in the social hierarchy of his
entire nation; being of the smallest tribe, and the smallest family of the
tribe, and the smallest or weakest person in his family. Moses, Elijah, David,
and Gideon were all wrong in their perceptions of their real situation in life.
God had more for all of them to do. In God's timing, He lifted them up to serve
in greater and more powerful ways.

God wants to use you in a greater and more powerful way. How do you arrive
at that point when God calls you up from the reserves, and puts you on the
front lines? Number one, is that you simply refuse to give up on God. You keep
believing, keep trusting, keep doing what you know is right and good. You keep
reading your Bible, keep on going to church, keep on praying, keep on serving
in whatever way that you can. What you are doing is humbling yourself before
God, accepting what He has for your life. Then, at a time, and possibly at a
place you least expect it, when you have almost given up – God will “exalt you
in due time.” I like the way the NIV puts this, that God will “lift you up
in due time.” That is what God did for Joseph in the Old Testament. Joseph
stayed the course, stayed faithful no matter how miserable his life situation
became, and God lifted him up to be the prime minister of the nation of Egypt.

Humble yourself under God's hand, stay faithful, and He will lift you up;
exalt you, when the right time comes.

Copyright © 2010 - 2018. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
20 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for healing
for Michelle Abetz, Thelma Lewis and her sister Denise, Brandy, Damon D. &
wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Gary and Glenna Kirk, Amy
Carroll, Caleb Freeman, Chris Ramber, Toby, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our devotions,
we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending
a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond to the
confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org