The meaning
Limbo's definition per Dictionary.com is,noun
Definition: state of uncertainty
I also define it as a place of uncertainty and not to be confused with Purgatory.
This is a place of waiting.
This place evokes patience.
This is a test, a trial
Living In Limbo
As a result of the many bad decisions I made, or the many good decisions I should have made, I'm here, in Limbo. Limbo can make you or break you. It all depends on what choices you make while there. To give in, to live by the rules of your limbo or to Believe.
When presented with bad news, a terminal diagnosis, the ailing health or death of a loved one, know this, YOU ARE NOT ALONE .
Daniel was in limbo, Daniel 6:16 So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”, Daniel served and prayed to God regardless of the circumstances that hindered him from doing so, he knew God would come through, he Believed. Daniel 6:21 Daniel answered, “May the king live forever! 22 My God sent his angel, and He shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight. Nor have I ever done any wrong before you, Your Majesty.”
Job was very familiar with Limbo, in addition to loosing all of his possessions, Job1:18 18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, “Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother’s house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!”, he lost his family.Yet he never gave up praying to and praising God and Job 42:12(41 chapter later)the Lord blessed the latter part of Job’s life more than the former part.
Stay unwavering in limbo, He's with you in that pit of lions, in that terminal diagnosis, in the death of a loved one, and in Him there is the Guarantee of a Future far beyond your expectations. Revelations 21:4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.
Even with a rightful judgement that was passed against me threatening the most important thing in my life -family, I do not lose my faith, because He won't give up on me.
Fall down?
Get back up again ...and again and again .........to infinity.
Faith gets us thru the rough times, my brother! Praise God for the assurance He gives us!!
ReplyDeleteHebrews 11:1 NIV) – “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
(John 14:1-3 NKJV) - "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
(Romans 8:31-39 NIV) – “ If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”