December 15th, 2022
Thursday, December 15, 2022
His Word Reminds Us
By: Lori Ennis
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1
I don’t know about you, but there have been a few times in my life when I felt God was so far away, I wondered if He was really who I’d said He was all my life.
The pain I was going through was soul-crushing; I questioned how God could be for my son when he died the day after he was born. How He could be for another son I lost in my second trimester of pregnancy? Where was He when cancer stole my mother or my husband’s father far before they should have gone?
How did He go before them or me and be FOR them or me in any of that?
King David thought the same. He’d been a man after God’s heart His whole life and still…tragedy struck. The broken world had its way and David’s sins and circumstances found him crying out to the God He’d always thought was for him. Like many of us may have felt in our lives, David felt abandoned.
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. Psalm 22:14-15
The rest of the story of David is the part that we can thankfully also find relatable, though.
Despite the rawest and most agonizing feelings of abandonment and apathy from God he felt, David remembered that God was still his Father. God still had anointed him and blessed him and allowed for him to cry out to him and find forgiveness, redemption and reconciliation. He begged forgiveness and a close relationship again, and it was granted.
We have that same ability through Jesus. Even when we are His children, the human feelings we may have will still lie to us and tell us He’s far away. But His word tells us the Truth.
That He loves us.
That He wants us to ask for His restoration and peace and comfort because He gives it abundantly.
That He died for us to know this.
And that our God IS indeed for us.
When you’re feeling that He’s not, take out His word. Read it. Cry over it. Lift it to Him and ask Him to use it to speak to you.
I promise, it will not return void.
His Word Reminds Us
By: Lori Ennis
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.” 1 John 3:1
I don’t know about you, but there have been a few times in my life when I felt God was so far away, I wondered if He was really who I’d said He was all my life.
The pain I was going through was soul-crushing; I questioned how God could be for my son when he died the day after he was born. How He could be for another son I lost in my second trimester of pregnancy? Where was He when cancer stole my mother or my husband’s father far before they should have gone?
How did He go before them or me and be FOR them or me in any of that?
King David thought the same. He’d been a man after God’s heart His whole life and still…tragedy struck. The broken world had its way and David’s sins and circumstances found him crying out to the God He’d always thought was for him. Like many of us may have felt in our lives, David felt abandoned.
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. Psalm 22:14-15
The rest of the story of David is the part that we can thankfully also find relatable, though.
Despite the rawest and most agonizing feelings of abandonment and apathy from God he felt, David remembered that God was still his Father. God still had anointed him and blessed him and allowed for him to cry out to him and find forgiveness, redemption and reconciliation. He begged forgiveness and a close relationship again, and it was granted.
We have that same ability through Jesus. Even when we are His children, the human feelings we may have will still lie to us and tell us He’s far away. But His word tells us the Truth.
That He loves us.
That He wants us to ask for His restoration and peace and comfort because He gives it abundantly.
That He died for us to know this.
And that our God IS indeed for us.
When you’re feeling that He’s not, take out His word. Read it. Cry over it. Lift it to Him and ask Him to use it to speak to you.
I promise, it will not return void.
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