Whatever the reason for being out of synch, my response is
always the same if I deep down truly know God is there. HELP!!! My prayer is
for inner strength (Ps 39:10-13). My prayer is for forgiveness, for protection
against a powerful enemy, for blessings of memorials that commemorate His works
for all His people and me in particular and for fulfilling the promise that He
made to me never to leave me. (I Kings 8:36-50; 2 Chronicles 6:24-40). My
response is to dedicate myself to Him as Solomon in the above verses dedicated
the Temple to Him, regardless of what may come and how I may stumble, when I
get up I pray for God’s hand in blessing me, remembering that I do deep down
love Him and will only follow Him. My acknowledgment is in 2 Chronicles
20:4-17, in which I acknowledge that He is mighty and that just as He promised
to take care of His children in Israel He will also care for me. So I
acknowledge who He is, what He has done, and how He protects me. I fall on my
knees before Him when I am out of synch, simply because there is no other
recourse but to do so. I am in the begging mode and have come to know that I am
so weak and that only He can help me. (Ps 6:1-8) And when it gets tough and my
panic buttons have been pushed, surely I cry to God that He has forgotten me,
and allows my enemies to rejoice over their victories over me. (Ps 13:1-4; 22:-1-22)
But I will forever trust Him, because I know He eventually lives up to His
promises. (Ps 31:1-4, 14-19). God is God, and His time is always right, even
though I am ready for Him to do His thing now, He knows that later may be the
best time in the eternal scheme of things. And I like Christ must carry my
cross and being crucified and bones broken and side, hands and feet pierced
must fall to the depths crying constantly, focusing diligently upon God, never
taking my eyes from Him, never denying that He is the one with power and the
one in control. And I can fool myself in one of two ways that God is not truly
in control. One way is to want to live my life, do my thing my way, worship God
the way I think He wants me to worship Him instead of being in such an intimate
relationship with Him that I do worship Him the way He wants. The second way is
just as self-deluding as the first way. I can believe that I am not seen by
Him. (Jer 23:10; Ezek 8:12; Ezek 9:9; Ezek 18:25), and if I am not seen by Him,
He won’t notice me in chat rooms and speaking inappropriately to people or He
won’t notice me cursing a driver under my breath for cutting me off in traffic
or He won’t notice when I complain about things and how hard my life is? And
then He shows me He is in control. Maybe not this minute, maybe not this hour,
maybe not this year, but He shows me and my faith better be strong enough to
realize it.
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