Here with you

Text Box: Dear Servant, No, I have not forgotten you. I have not abandoned you. I am always with you in all things. I promised in my word that I would never leave you or forsake you and that I would make my home in your heart. I have not broken those promises. However, I have let you be placed in the refiner’s fire. I have allowed suffering to darken your door and I have held back rescue for the time being. Why have I allowed such a thing? Look back at my servants of old. All of them were like you, human and sinful. All of them needed to have evil drawn from them and to learn obedience. In truth, you like so many other servants, cannot learn these lessons when all is well. You can only learn them when I allow the heat of suffering and the drawing of trial to impact your life. I know this is a painful, sometimes excruciating process. I feel every blow of the enemy and I share in each heartache you feel. Even in this cauldron of despair I have not abandoned you. Take joy, for you will not always be here. Take joy, in knowing that when you leave this fire you will not be the same person you were. Take joy, for no matter where you are, I am with you. Here with you, I AM