Trusting faith!
Verse for Today: Thursday, December 5, 2013
Psalms 6:3 – My soul is in
anguish. How long, O Lord, how long?
Our circumstances often take us through
excruciating and acute distress and pain as its impact on our soul and body
become unbearable. It is as if a heavy load is laid over our hearts to press us
hard without breathing space or escape. We cry out, but our voice is often lost
in the grinding of the mill of situations. We wait for the Lord to rescue us
and He seems far away. The harder we try to get out, the deeper we sink in the miry
clay of our situations. In exasperation we cry out and ask the Lord as to why
He is not coming to our rescue. But we can be sure of one thing, that He hears
our prayers, sees our struggles and knows our situations. He is only waiting to
see how many lessons in faith we learn from our experiences of pain and misery.
Often we cause our own troubles through immaturity, haste, impatience, poor
discernment and self-dependence. Sometimes we are prey to the selfishness of
others. But it is also a time of testing that the Lord allows in our lives to
help us grow in faith and trust. It is in our deepest gloom that we learn how
the Lord is our only help and support. Often the answer comes to us when all hope
is gone. We reach a stage when our possessions, position, prominence and influence
do not come to our help. In our deepest despair, even our friends elude us. When
all hope is gone, we learn the hard way to trust in the Lord alone. When we ask
the Lord as to why deliverance is delayed, He answers silently that He is out
there to test our level of faith. But He will not push us beyond our capacity.
He keeps giving us strength and grace to go through the anguish and leave it
with the Lord to handle while we rest in Him. Today He comes to reassure us
that He is with us in our anguish and misery and will see us through it all by
teaching us wonderful lessons in faith.
Dear friend, are you experiencing
unimaginable distress and anguish in life? Is your situation seemingly hopeless?
Are you engulfed in pain and misery as the burden is increasing moment by
moment? Are you getting impatient with the Lord that even He is not answering
your prayers and delivering you from snares? But these are moments when the
Lord tests your capacity to endure by faith. He is near you and He watches your
distress and tears. He fills you with His peace even as your situation is
extremely grim. He leads you moment by moment as you endure pain and misery by
faith. He holds your hand and reassures you that He hears your cries for help.
Your prayers are not ignored. Your tears are in His jar of remembrance and not
forgotten. Your compassionate Lord cannot and will not turn away from your sufferings.
But He is interested in strengthening you to fight your battles by faith and
become victorious. Today He is delaying to deliver you so that you will use the
experience of pain to learn to trust Him and grow in your faith. He is interested
in your spiritual growth and faith to trust Him alone to deliver you. He will
see to it that your experiences will not crush or harm you. The Lord is
building you up and fortifying your faith with reassurances that as you wait in
agony, He works to deliver and restore you for His glory. So do not lose faith,
dear friend. Hang in there and trust the Lord. He knows how heavy your burdens
are. Expect Him to come at the brink of
time to rescue you.
Jeremiah 1:8 – “Do not be
afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you,” declares the Lord.
Thought for Today
The nail-pierced hands are
underneath to protect and deliver us in all our situations.
Prayer for today
Dear Lord Jesus: Give me patience
to wait for you to help me grow in faith as I struggle with every test that you
give. Amen!
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