Hey, have you ever been in a place where your feeling scream at you – GET ME OUT OF THIS – or I HAVE GOTTA FIX THIS THING NOW. I know I sure have. I am in the midst of one right this minute. I have had surgery on both of my feet. I am couped up and alone. I “feel” lonely. I “feel” afraid of where a certain person in my life is headed and what impact it could have on me – my future – my my my my …. Kinda selfish sounding isn’t it? Last night I barely slept because I am so focused on this possibility and I allowed myself to loose sleep over it. Then when I try to resolve it – NOPE – not gonna happen. Ever been there?
So I started praying… I called out for God’s mercy and Grace to come down. I opened my Bible and this verse is the first page that opened.
James 1:2-4
Consider it all joy my brothers when you encounter carious trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance; and let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
I hear God say through His word that He is the author of situations and People – Events – Problems – struggles – issues – Feelings that come and go – ALL THING – Eph. 1:11. He is working all things to the counsel of His will. Our life is predestined according to His purposes. SO this would certainly include my feelings and thoughts – fears. God calls me to trust Him and not be afraid. To cast off my Fears and Serve God faithfully where and when I can – entrusting Him with the cares of this life. Casting all my cares on Him for He cares for me.
Then I turn to Ps. 139
O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Well the comfort that God brought to me this morning is that I am fully known. Fully understood by the one who fashioned me in my mothers womb. He knows when I am rising up and laying down. He knows my words even before I say them. And His thoughts towards me are that of Love. SO… am I really alone. Perhaps physically sometimes (which I do not like) but never by my self. God is always with me no matter what – where- who – occurs. God is with me because of my Faith in Christ. Be encouraged during hard times. Look to the one who made you. Focus intentionally on Him and His word and you will strengthen yourself with the wonderful knowledge that you are not alone in this universe. When we repent of all sin – placing faith in Jesus and the work of the cross – His death burial and resurrection, and turn our lives over to living for God and serving him – choosing to acknowledge the presense of God and submitting to DO what He as Lord has said in His words tous – you will find His presence that fills you. With this you can face any day, no matter what the sovereign God allows, or actually causes. Focus intentionally on the Bible but only in Christ. (Meaning real salvation)
Where are you? Can you call on the Grace of God to come down to your need at any moment? Have you ever experienced this Grace in Christ? Tell me about your experience and what Scriputure did God use to encourage you? Let us know your thoughts and how God “rescued” you from your fears! Respond to this post below and let me and others hear about God’s faithfulness in your place and time of Need.
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