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By Frank Salerni
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If you glance across the landscape of my life, the beauty of a botanical obstruction, known as self-image, will blind you.
What it covers you will undoubtedly misrepresent as a well-planted garden.
Its true! Bring your eyesight level with the highest points of anyone’s life and all you blinded to the valleys of those persons deepest emotions, hurts, or failures.
It is within the interior of personal depressions called shattered dreams, that the canyon walls seem the highest and the most impenetrable to scale.
However, when we do climb to the top of our circumstances, the valley floor can look incredibly small from our new victorious vantage point.
If you call yourself a friend of others and choose not to explore the depth of their life, you’ll most certainly fall into the caverns that cry for help by them, without ever being prepared for the riggers of selfless love.
The shallowness of what we opt to see is safe, and therefore can be most enjoyable for own selfishness.
Careful! The flat smooth path of relationship, obstruct this valley of vulnerability.
This valley is designed to stumble our brethren who are unsuspecting of our repulsion for anyone tainted by Satan’s grip.
When they are faced with complex situations, we easily counsel without regard to what sin is, or how it can make a reality out from a web of accepted lies.
Ah, but it may not be true when you hurt, for you are different, you hold on to special circumstances; “God could not have been thinking of me when this valley was created, could He?”
The tired same old truth of God’s word doesn’t quite fit me as I see it.
It’s uncomfortable.
“I need special treatment, and special gear to make this treacherous trek out of my valley of pain and suffering, don’t I?”
“I’m tired of the common “Christian cliché’s.”
But the truth is there, sometimes right before our eyes!
Consider this. Where do valleys come from? Are not rivers of water the cause for this gouging of the land?
“But it is painful!” You may add.
Yes, and sometimes necessary, for the water will bring nourishment to a tired life of complacency.
“That offends me!”
Better to be offended than to live in the cloche of obscurity.
“Then, God isn’t abandoning me?”
Certainly not! He is loving on you, growing you, caring for you, and is always there with His hand extended for those who will trust that He is steadfast.
“Take hold!” He yearns.
“I’ve got you, and you shall not slip away from My grasp.”
Others may only see the obscured landscape of an actor's life, played out in desperation, but Jesus made all things… including the shadow of the “Valley of Death.”
It is just a “shadow,” we are not to be afraid of our own shadows.
We are to fear no evil!
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matt 11:28)
Forgive us for our shortsightedness, for we only see what we want to see.
We must remember not to trust in mans goodness, for he is not God.
Jesus is the living water.
If you don’t see Him in the bottom of your valley floor… dig, He is there!
He is there to quench the fire that burns in the present, and will sooth future flames of doubt.
The ground beneath my feet can crumble away if I climb alone without God’s help.
Don’t make the mistake of not heeding His intuitive nature.
May you be pulled from the miry pit, and stand upon “The Rock!”
Come out from the valley of briers and thistles, and climb to the apex of God’s love.
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