Thursday 12.30.10

Wake Up:
5:30 am

Devotion:
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me. (Psalm 138:7)

I have called on God in the day of trouble; I have pleaded His promise of deliverance but no deliverance has been given; the enemy has continued oppressing until I was in the very thick of the fight, in the center of trouble.

Though His answer has so long delayed, though we may still continue to go on in the midst of trouble, the center of trouble is the place where He revives, not the place where He fails us. When in the hopeless place, the continued hopeless place, is the very time when He ill stretch forth His hand against the wrath of our enemies and perfect that which concerneth us, the very time when He will make the attack to cease and fail and come to an end. What occasion is there then for fainting?

The Eye of the Storm
Fear not that the whirlwind shall carry thee hence,
Nor wait for its onslaught in breathless suspense,
Nor shrink from the whips of the terrible hail,
But pass through the edge to the heart of the gale,
For there is a shelter, sunlighted and warm,
And Faith sees her God through the eye of the storm.
The passionate tempest with rush and wild roar
And threatenings of evil may beat on the shore,
The waves may be mountains, the fields battle plains,
And the earth be immersed in a deluge of rains,
Yet, the soul, stayed on God, may sing bravely its psalm,
For the heart of the storm is the center of calm.
Let hope be not quenched in the blackness of night,
Though the cyclone awhile may have blotted the light,
For behind the great darkness the starts ever shine,
And the light of God's heavens, His love shall make thine,
Let no gloom dim thine eyes, but uplift them on high,
To the face of thy God and blue of His sky.
The storm is thy shelter from danger and sin,
And God Himself takes thee for safety within;
The tempest with Him passeth into deep calm,
And the roar of the winds is the sound of the psalm.
Be gald and serene when the tempest clouds form;
God smiles on His child in the eye of the storm.

Workout:
WOD: Kona

Work Capacity:

• 130 pushups
• 100 squats
• 100 situps

Notes: short on time. This week has been so busy my workouts have really suffered.