Let me ask you this question: Are you pressed beyond measure? Are you pressed above strength? Have you come to the place in your life where you say, “It’s all right for other people, but somehow it won’t work in my case…
What’s the use of me talking about a holy life?… What’s the use of me talking about full surrender?… What’s the use of me talking about the dedicated life of the ministry of Jesus Christ? I am in a particular situation for which there is no way out; there’s no way back; there’s no way through. I can’t find the answer!”
The answer is, to trust God just where you are:
Pressed out of measure and pressed to all length;
Pressed so intensely it seems beyond strength:
Pressed in the body, pressed in the soul,
Pressed in the mind till the dark surges roll;
Pressure by foe and pressure from friends,
Pressure on pressure till life nearly ends.
Is that it? Then listen. If you are pressed out, you are pressed in.
Pressed into knowing no helper but God,
Pressed into loving the staff and the rod,
Pressed into liberty where nothing clings,
Pressed into faith for impossible things,
Pressed into living a life in the Lord,
Pressed into living a Christ-life outpoured.
The reason why you are in that place today is simply in order that you might trust God. Do not pull strings. Do not hold committee meetings. Do not wangle things. Do not manipulate. Do not scheme, and do not plan. Sit still and trust God, and He will deliver you from your self-despair, from the sentence of death.
Hi. Just read this as I’m being pressed as never before. Feel incapable of maganaging my life anymore. Getting older, dislike myself and can’t keep being pure in my eyes and feel miserable when i make new resolutions to God.
Bible reading and trusting God has been the hallmark of my life these past 40 yrs. I’m crippled with my own sin and isolated because of my morals leading to condemnation of others who are ungodly.
As I wonder what to do next I am reminded of verse “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live..”That I googled and was led to your site. Then I clicked this page- pressed beyond all measurea nd this feedback possibility.
I realise it’s useles filling my head with own solutions as you suggest.A good friend told me last week (he’s here for a week- a missionary) that I can’t do it myself. God has to do it. I have been filed with doubts more than ever in my 40 yrs as a christian. I just don’t really know where to go
I think your question about where to go has just been answered! He hasn’t left us to our own means but is gently leading us to the next step of showing his glory through our earthen vessels. And as Elijah found when he ran out of steam–you are certainly not isolated. God has reserved those believers for himself and given them to us as a source of comfort and encouragement. I encourage you to delve into the material on this site. The book A New Creation is a dazzling revelation of the very core of our life as a Christian. The truth in there turned a life-long weary Christian into a joyful force for God. Hang in there, brother!