trACker number444
The e-Inspirational helping to keep you on-track
GodTracker is online at www.godtracker.co.uk
31 May 2013
Dear God-tracker
God-tracking is being willing
to bend to God testing
The young pastor
lifted his eyes from the hard concrete of the train station platform and looked
again into the moistened eyes of the woman he called his wife. They were still
deeply in love but they both knew it was over. Six years ago he’d left his wife
and children and a flourishing Christian work to marry this woman, but in that
time he had come to realise that, though strong, their love was wrong. These
years had been extremely trying. There was no longer any blessing on his work
and everything that could go wrong, had gone wrong. Initially he thought he
could bend the scriptures to qualify his sin but to no avail. God’s Word stood
strong. After much heartache and strife they had both come to realise that the
only way to walk in God’s will again was to repent of their tainted love. Yet,
the young pastor knew that, although he had sinned and done wrong, God was
using his folly to train him in the school of life - all who God calls, God
tests. This young man had endured 6 years of wilderness training and was now ready
and stronger to return to the call of his Lord, with repentance. They said good
bye as he boarded the train with a sad yet contrite heart.
Dear God-tracker,
the scriptures are packed with scenarios like the one you have just read: Moses
had the potential of becoming an ambassador for God’s people in Egypt but he
killed an Egyptian and fled to the desert of Midian. It was here that he had
his burning bush call to become the greatest prophet/leader Israel has ever known.
King David committed adultery with Bathsheba and endured heartache until he
came to repentance, after which he was called the apple of God’s eye. Bold Simon
Peter who had acknowledged Jesus as the Christ and had pledged his undying
elegance to his Lord had turned timid after Jesus was arrested and flatly
denied him three times. Yet after Peter’s repentance Jesus reinstated him as
primary leader of the first Church, ever.
If you feel as
though you are going through a desert experience because of a bad choice or
because you have sinned then rest assured God is testing you. Taking the examples
above, repent and recommit yourself to tracking God’s purposes. Sometimes, as
only God knows how, God himself will burn off the deceit, immoral ambitions or
foolish behaviour of the ones he calls for his ends. So believe me when I say,
those God calls, God tests, because a contrite heart he seeks.
God-tracking is being willing to bend to God testing.
Keep your eyes on
Jesus.
Dudley
It’s all in the Book. Read more:
2 Samuel 11 – 12:23
Exodus 2 – 3
Isaiah 57:15
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GodTracker and trACker owe their origins to an international
Christian radio programme produced by Dudley Anderson called, OnTrack. Although
OnTrack went off-air in 2005, trACker has continued to help people to track
God's plans and purposes for their lives since July 2003.
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Verse of the Week
Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite
heart, O God, you will not despise.
Quote of the Week
A Sample of Dudley’s Fave Quotes
“I am convinced that, many times, the one
thing that prolongs our trials is our refusal to give thanks with a grateful
and contrite heart.” --- Bonnie Ricks
Don’t Give Up, Look Up!
Look up and
Fix Your Eyes on Jesus!
Like Moses, David and
Peter I turn my back on my folly and recommit myself to following your call
Pray:
“O Lord I really desire to be a
God-tracker but tracking your plans and purposes for my life involves my responding
to your call. I see now that those you call to serve you, you test. Often that
testing involves you refining me of my selfish ambitions. So I want to take
this time to admit that I have made many mistakes and even sinned by following
my own ambitions and not your calling. I humble myself and repent of all my sin
and bad choices. O Lord, forgive me for taking my eyes off the purity of your
purposes to pursue my own desires. Like Moses, David and Peter I turn my back
on my folly and recommit myself to following your call. You are my Lord and I
love you. Amen.”
If you desire more prayer then
e-mail dudley@godtracker.co.uk
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