As mature Christians there can be shadows that come into our minds and attitudes of heart that we don't want to deal with. Sometimes what we really need to know cannot be plainly spoken into our lives. It is our privilege that we are taught by God. Jesus has a way of taking us to the core of our issues and expounding on what we need to understand about ourselves and our circumstances. Our questions are not what matters, what matters is that we get in His word and stay in His presence long enough to receive His power and change. Sometimes we don't get the answers right away but we get Jesus.

If we are going to stand in the coming days we have to go to the old wells, the places where our forefathers went and draw out water. We dig in the same places where they dug in their times of stress, trial and famine and we will find the same source of strength and provision that they found.

We are living in a time when the bride of Christ is looking in the wrong direction and her heart is looking back at the world she should have left behind. Jesus makes a clear declaration for His church on this side of eternity that we are the salt of the earth and the light in a dark world. If our heart is one with God's heart, God will work supernaturally through us and we will become a living testimony for the redemption of man. The very life we live should create a thirst for the living God and His light should be seen in us.

We are blessed when we acknowledge our spiritual poverty and call upon the riches of God. God will take us into His personal vault and show us all of the things that are accessible to us in those times when we feel like we can't go on one more step. The key to opening up this vault is to allow the Holy Spirit to take us by the hand and walk us through this world so we can see that God is at work and He is completely in control of everything.