What do you want…

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, and for as many years as we have seen evil. Let your work be shown to your servants, and your glorious power to their children. Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands! (Psalm 90:12-17 ESV)

Have you ever felt like this? The person in the picture out in the middle of no where with no one around…

All alone, and wondering when God is going to come to your rescue?

That is what these verses in the psalm for today make me think about. How long O Lord will you leave me here, come and give me what I want. Have pity on me and fill me with your steadfast love, and make me feel good so that I can be happy and rejoice because my life is good and I have no problems…

Is this what we really think about God? That He will establish the work of our hands? That what we want will be given to us, when we want it?

God is not a cosmic vending machine there for us to call to to make all of our troubles go away. We can not call on Him when everything is bad and expect what we want to be given to us. That is not how it works. God is not a beck and call king of creator. Yes He loves you, but He wants more than your requests. He wants all of your life, and if you hand Him your life, and follow after Him, those moments in the desert, when it feels like your life is falling apart, will not be alone. You will be walking hand in hand with Jesus, not because you have your life together and you are doing the right things all the time, but you are living a life in relationship with Him! You are living in relationship with God, and that is why you are not alone. Not because you follow all of the rules and do everything right. God knows you can’t do that but He loves you any how.

It is like any other relationship. You can not not talk to a friend for years and then pick up the phone and ask them for a kidney. It doesn’t work like that. But someone you have lived with through thick and thin and been there for the ups and downs, when you get that call for the kidney, it is a longer pause, and a possibility. God will never let you down. Don’t treat Him like a vending machine just giving Him your requests, but spend time, and then you will never be alone.