Tight Corner

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Me:  Prodigal, you have yourself in a tight corner!

 

Prodigal:  Yep, I thought I knew the way and now look.

 

Me:  Well, it is when we come to the end of ourselves that we can maybe finally look in the right direction.

 

Charles Spurgeon in his book Joy in Christ’s Presence discusses tight corner’s

 

Oh, the mercy that comes with utter self-despair!  I love to see a soul driven into a tight corner and forced to look to God alone.  The end of the creature is the beginning of the Creator.  Where the sinner ends, the Savior begins.

 

I once was lost but now I am found.  I once was blind but now I see.  Many of you may know those verses in Amazing Grace which is my favorite hymn.  Those are my favorite verses in the hymn.  See I was in a tight corner driven there by ME.  I was leading myself as I was blind and lost.  That is how you end up in a tight corner.  Then I was forced to look upon God.  The result of looking up.

I am found and now I see.  How precious is that sight after being blind!  We should never forget our our time of blindness and our time of being lost.  For if we do, we forget the joy of our being found!

 

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me.’  Acts 26:18

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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