A Different Perspective // There Is a Light at the End of the Tunnel, Part 2

<p>Things look different depending on where you sit. And sometimes, things in our lives look a whole bunch worse from where we sit, than from where God sits.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>The View from Heaven’s Balcony</strong></span></h3> <p>I was recently confronted with a situation that really tested my faith. You see, I don’t want you to think that just because I happen to be this smooth voice on the radio – that I somehow get an exemption stamp in my passport, from turbulence on the journey. In fact, probably the opposite is the case.</p> <p>Because I’m out there, sharing the fantastic news of Jesus with people all around the world, week after week through these radio programs, our enemy the devil’s got me in his sights. I’ve got a target painted on my chest as far as he’s concerned. So, here’s what was going on.</p> <p>There was one particular country, one of the world’s most populous countries, where our team had been working to get these programs to air on a radio station with a huge listenership. The daily audience for the program was going to be over one million people – that’s actual listeners.</p> <p>That’s a big deal! I mean one listener is a big deal to me. A million – I can’t even imagine that many people. It’s a big deal. We’d been working for two years on this project, including finding translators and a voice to record the messages in the local vernacular language.</p> <p>Quite an investment of time and effort and money. And then the day came when finally, the radio network in question accepted the program and placed it in a prime time slot. Amazing stuff. We rejoiced. We gave thanks. Really – it had been such a long road and so much was at stake. So many lives, so many people to hear the good news about Jesus. Wow.</p> <p>But on the first day we were due to go to air they told us, well … we can accept the program for the moment, but in a few weeks’ time, we’re having a review of all externally provided programs and we don’t know what that is going to mean.</p> <p>When o