Be gracious to me, O God, for man tramples on me; all day long an attacker oppresses me; my enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly. When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me? All day long they injure my cause; all their thoughts are against me for evil. They stir up strife, they lurk; they watch my steps, as they have waited for my life. For their crime will they escape? In wrath cast down the peoples, O God! You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me. In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me? I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life. (Psalm 56 ESV)
Have you ever been afraid? Like things were going to be bad? And even more than worry, that people and forces were coming against you? Like your whole world was collapsing in, and there was no support?
We all get scared when life happens. Things in our life seem to over take us and the circumstances are to hard to take. If we rely on ourselves that is when the water keeps rising and things just snow ball,,, You see there is only so much we can do on our own…
But with God, all things are possible. We can cry tears of sadness, or hurt and know that God is collecting them in His hand and holding them in His heart, to help us. Not by taking away the pain or the hurt, or the sorrow, but through understanding. God knows our sorrows and pains, better than we do and He is there to catch our tears and hold us up. He is there in the time we are scared to hold our hand, and help us along the way.
God is like my brother-in-law and brother. Let me explain. When I was younger, still in jr high I think, my family went to a haunted woods. I am not big on haunted anything, but I went because the family was going. Well there was a man in the woods who had a blade less chainsaw and he was revving it up and running around scaring people. Well he scared me, because my brother-in-law and brother had to carry me out of the woods. You see when I heard this and saw him coming, I wrapped one of my arms around my brothers arm and the other arm around my brother-in-laws arm and lifted my feet off the ground. I clung to them to protect me… And that is exactly where God is, holding us, every time we are scared.
So cling to Him, like I did to my brothers… He will never let you down.
aSacredRebel 