For how can the servant of this my lord talk with this my lord? for as for me, straightway there remained no strength in me, neither was there breath left in me. (Daniel 10:17)
There is a song, "My Soul is Anchored", that I love to listen to, especially when it seems like life is a uncertain. It is in these times -- times of feeling overwhelmed, times of uncertainty, times of doubting, cloudy days, lonely days, days of crying, days of mourning, days of grieving, days when bad news seems to be the only news there is -- it is these kind of days that leave me breathless. Daniel felt this way when he saw the future ... and it was't very bright.
Many moments in 2009 have left me, like Daniel, with no strength and no breath.
"Though the storms keep on raging in my life
And sometimes it's hard to tell the night from day
Still that hope that lies within is reassured as I keep my eyes upon the distant shore / I know He'll lead me safely to that blessed place He has prepared / But if the storm don't cease and if the winds keep on blowing in my life
My soul has been anchored in the Lord."
2010 is just a few weeks away and I will meet it with an anchored soul ... a little out of breath, yes ... but with a renewed stregth that can only come from the Lord.
