We’re all aware of the present heartache in our nation, across the seas, in our neighborhoods and even in our own homes.
Our Christianity doesn’t grant us immunity to pain or hardship in this life and thus we are tempted with adopting the lie that God is not who He says He is.
So the crossroads we may now find ourselves in commands that we make a decision.
What will we profess about God when we’re in a hard season?
Will we liken Him to a man, fickle and capricious?
One who easily abandons and forgets us?
Will we say the surrounding valley is an indication of His absence?
Am I so easily shaken?
Is my love so fickle?
Has my soul forgotten the seas He’s parted before my eyes?
Will I choose to believe all that He’s whispered to me is true even when I don’t understand?
Will I still praise Him in honor of who He is while I wait for what He‘ll do?
Like King David,
We can offer our thanksgiving to the Lord as a sacrificial offering when it isn’t easy to be thankful.
We are challenged and championed when we remember to surrender our voices in praise,
When we remember that this is also our weapon against the voices of discouragement and defeat.
Though the natural tells us chaos abounds,
We are grounded and comforted when we remember that nothing has or ever will dethrone our King.
Tragedies may come,
Wars may rise,
Tears may flow,
Everything may be stripped,
But He is still God,
and ever worthy of our praise.
“I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;
even at night my heart instructs me.
I keep my eyes always on the Lord.
With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
my body also will rest secure,
because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,
nor will you let your faithful one see decay.
You make known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with joy in your presence,
with eternal pleasures at your right hand.”
Psalm 16:7-11
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