Turn The Page

Turn the Page

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

PRAYER

SCRIPTURE: - Jeremiah 23:20 NKJV “In the latter days you shall understand it perfectly”.

John 13:7 “Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter”.

OPENING: - I will compare different versions of the Bible when studying because the wording will often be different and it will offer a different understanding. For example, our text in KJV & NKJV “In latter days you shall understand it perfectly or consider it perfectly”. However, some version will say “In the days to come you will understand what this means” ASV, ESV.

Today I just want to encourage someone dealing with difficult times, a difficult situation, a problem that just totally caught you off guard and you are literally dumbfounded, perplexed, confused, frustrated, angry, upset because the immediate future and circumstances are unclear at best.

QUESTION: - Have you ever read a book, the Bible, a novel, love story or anything and you get to a part of the book, and it just does not make sense. It is hard to figure out; it just doesn’t seem to fit in with everything else you have been reading up to this point. You would go back trying to figure out if you missed something, did you skip over some vital part, did you misunderstand what was happening because what you just read doesn’t make sense. However, when you turn the page and read a little more it all come together.

In John13:7 “Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter”. Jesus had poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciple’s feet when He gets to Peter, Peter says vs#6 “Lord, dost thou wash my feet”? In other words this doesn’t make sense after everything you did, everything you taught us, all the miracles we saw you perform, how you called me and caused me to walk on water and now you want to wash my feet, this doesn’t make sense to me and vs#8 “Thou shalt never wash my feet” because it just doesn’t make sense. Jesus said in vs#7 “thou shalt know hereafter”. Right now it doesn’t make since, but hold on, press on, don’t give up it will all come together after a while.

Let me encourage you:- You have given up somethings, you have turned away from things, you have been walking on this path with Jesus Christ for sometime when out on nowhere this situation hit you, this circumstance took the wind out of you, like David said your foot almost slipped. You couldn’t understand how you were doing everything according to the Word of God, you were like Job you paid tithes, offered prayers for others did everything and suddenly the boat of your life began to sink and you find yourself sinking crying out like Peter Lord Save Me!

You don’t understand why this is happening, you can’t figure it out, you’re confused, frustrated, upset, but just like when you read a book if you just turn the page. If you just keep on pressing, holding on, don’t give up. You may not understand it right now; it may not make sense right this very moment but afterwhile it will come together. Pretty soon you will understand what it all means and what it is all for. All you have to do is turn the page, hold on, press through.

In your walk with Christ there will be detours, there will be distraction, delays, and disappointments but you must keep on moving, you must turn the page understanding that there is somewhere you need to go. This right here isn’t all there is, this right here is not the end of your story, this right here even though I may not quite understand it I know I got somewhere to go and that is the next page, that is the next chapter in your life, that is the next mountain top. Have to make up in your mind, set your heart to and say this current situation was just a delay, this circumstance was a distraction, but I am determined and I know without a shadow of a doubt I have a destiny I have somewhere to go, and that place is victory.

Not only do you have somewhere to go but I have got something I need to do because this that I am dealing with right now although you don’t understand it all yet is preparing you for something to do that greater than you can even imagine. Ephesians 3:20 says, “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think”. God has a purpose for you and a plan for your life. You may not understand it right now but let me say to you that once you turn the page, the next chapter in your life is going to be something supernatural, it’s going to be amazing.