My soul longs for your salvation;
I hope in your word.
My eyes long for your promise;
I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
yet I have not forgotten your statutes.
How long must your servant endure?
When will you judge those who persecute me?
The insolent have dug pitfalls for me;
they do not live according to your law.
All your commandments are sure;
they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
They have almost made an end of me on earth,
but I have not forsaken your precepts.
In your steadfast love give me life,
that I may keep the testimonies of your mouth.
(Psalm 119:81-88 ESV)
O God when will you comfort me?
O God when will you answer my call?
O God when will you give me a call again?
We all cry out to God and wonder sometimes if he hears us. We wonder if we will be comforted as if that is the only thing in the world that God has to do. Make sure that I am comfortable. And of course that is the main promise in the biblical account of what God is suppose to do. Give me a comfortable life, with no worries, no harm to me or my family, and everything works out great for me and for all who follow God.
But really how many of us follow God all the time? Or most of the time? Do we not look out for ourselves first, or maybe our family? I will take a lot of crap thrown at me, but if you come after my girls (my wife or daughters) you had better be prepared, because the gloves are coming off and you are going to get it. (I am the picture in the dictionary next to mamma bear!)
We look out for ourselves and do not follow after God. C. S. Lewis said this in Mere Christianity. None of us obey the natural law, the moral law all the time. We look out for ourselves. So do any of us really have the right to call out to God to comfort us in our times of need? We seem to only want God when things are bad and seem to forget to thank Him for the good things in our lives.
I have been looking for the past 17 months for a different place to be in ministry and fervently looking for the past 5 months. But I know God is watching over me and my family. He never promised a walk in the park, or comfort all the time, but He did promise to never leave or forsake, and He hasn’t. He has walked with me through all of it. He asks us to walk with Him, and He can take our calling out for comfort. Just don’t think He has left you.
Thank God for all the things in your life, the bad, and hard times, but the blessings you have as well. And always remember that He will be with you always, even to the ends of the ages!
aSacredRebel 