I N F I N I T E   S U P P L Y

June 11, 2007

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Today's meditation is taken from:

JOHN: THE APOSTLE OF TESTIMONY
by Chip Brogden


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"I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and
in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is
called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus
Christ" (Revelation 1:9,10a).

John is typical of all Overcomers. Notice that his greatest
contribution to the Church is in his old age and at a time of
spiritual darkness. Although we know that he worked diligently among
the churches of Asia Minor as a pastor, teacher, and elder, Scripture
holds him in relative obscurity until the time of the end. Then, like
a treasured vessel, after everything is broken down and falling
apart, John is brought out of insignificance and is given the crucial
work of restoring the Testimony to the Church, that the ultimate plan
and purpose of God may be fulfilled. Since John is an Overcomer, God
sends out the call for Overcomers through John. John is symbolic of
all Overcomers, and he is the instrument through which God raises up
Overcomers.

I can relate to John. I know many of us feel as if we are alone, in
exile, in a wilderness. Gradually we feel we are being shut up and
shut out by others who have not seen what we have seen. It is right
THERE, in the desert place, in the place of exile, in the place of
banishment, in the place of dryness, in the place of darkness, that
Christ is revealed to us. This ought to encourage us no matter what
our situation.

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