How often I am unaware of God’s presence. He is always with me, even when situations push me into a pit of disappointment. The circumstance drags over three months and finally comes to a hearing. The outcome is not to our benefit. I take a plunge into this pit – again. Dealing with disappointment and a God who seems distant.
“In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from your sight!” Yet you heard my cry for mercy when I called to you for help.” Psalm 31:22
The Lord spoke the word consume at the beginning of 2011. I have sought to let the Lord consume my moments, seeking to see His hand in every situation. Here at the end of the year I have hit a familiar wall, a disappointment that blinds my eyes – leaves me feeling that I am cut off from His sight.
The Spirit of God comes alongside – the Counselor brings help just when I am weak and needy. He sends help in the form of Wednesday night Bible study, Ruth: Loss, Love, & Legacy and Looking Up.
“When you walk through the dark, these things [God’s divine hand] can seem mysterious and God distant.” 1
“God calls to know Him. Calls to trust Him…People prone to wander, prone to bruising, prone to doubting, prone to losing.” 2
I am so prone to wander and doubt when disappointments come my way. I cry out to the Lord for faith and a focus fixed on Jesus. Disappointments in life will come and be many. Will I cling to the disappointment or faith in the Father?
God whispers…Have Faith
Cling to Jesus no matter how dark and disappointing
Cling to Jesus no matter how long and laborious
Cling to Jesus for dear life and never let go
God is with me….
“For God who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us.” 2 Corinthians 4:6-7
God whispers…Have Faith
His light shines into and out of my darkened heart
His glory revealed in the face of Jesus Christ
His treasure reflected in a plain jar of clay
His mystery displayed in all surpassing power from God
not from me – but in me
God is with me.
God whispers…Have Faith
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1 Ruth: Loss, Love, & Legacy, Kelly Minter
2 Looking Up, Beth Moore
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