Summary: Take the week to wrestle with God, asking him to shed light on the following questions or any others that arise through this weeks reflection. Give him space to respond, to heal, to resurrect. Take a moment to consider times when God has threshed or tested the promises he’s given you. Feel the emotions of that time. Have you been in a personal season of displacement, emotional difficulty, testing or dryness? Are you there right now? How does it change your understanding of that season to place it in the context of the threshing of grain to separate the healthy from the unhealthy, the constructive from the destructive, the dark from the light? What encouragement can you draw from knowing this is the final stage before the baking and sharing of the bread? Spirit, Counselor, Friend. We ask that you would soften our hearts where they have become hardened. We know that you feel the grief that we do, and that you care. Encourage our hearts. Convey afresh our Father's love for us and remind us of the vulnerability of Christ on the cross, our Saviour who promised he would be with us till the end of the age. Forgive where we have lost faith and hope in your promises, and heal us. Allow us not to become cynical but to walk out of our threshing with honest and open hearts. We thank you for this season and that we have not walked it alone. Amen.
