September 30, 2010

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  • these are very much like psalms to me, where in the beginning you are pouring your heart out to the Lord, but by the end you are reassured by His word and His faithfulness and the truth.  the truth is that He does reward those who draw near to Him and seek Him. it's so easy to forget that, but doesnt have to be that way.  we go through the fires and are refined. we learn every day how to love Him more and more unconditionally. we learn how to be content in Him alone. 

    Praying you feel His reassurance especially being still with Him today.

  • I agree, I was thinking specifically of Psalms 73 and 77.

  • @YouTOme - Thanks, dearie deer. (hugs) I've had some times of discouragement, but this particular letter was written w/ an eye toward Christians who say they believe in God but have serious continuing doubts about His goodness, all because they don't see Him operating in their lives in the way they think He should. They get mad at Him and even curse Him; they're not able to trust His sovereign hand is at work at all times, including in and through the trials and storms and heartbreaks of life. I want to challenge people that faith in God doesn't just include believing in God, but it is believing He is a good God, a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. I've been chewing on that verse for some time now.

    If we know God and know God's love for us in Christ, we simply cannot continue to hold such doubts and questions. I'm not saying we won't have those feelings from time to time (e.g. - evidenced by the psalms and other places in Scripture), but the believer in Christ can't persist in that. And besides that, it also makes for a terrible testimony to other believers and to the world.

    Romans 8:31  What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

  • @WLCALUM - Yes, I think we had a similar discussion on another post. (I added those two Psalms to the related reading. Thank you!)

  • @naphtali_deer - Having already read and answered your post following this one, I am struck by the recurring message that God is giving us:  Diligently SEEK.  That goes for all things pertaining to our relationship with Him: knowing Him, receiving blessing and help, serving Him - even speaking to others about and for Him.  By diligently seeking Him we won't misrepresent Him or misunderstand Him and others will actually see the real Jesus, not us.

  • @quest4god@revelife - Yes. Diligently seek. This is something I've been pondering for some time now, and God continues to convict me about this. He wants us to ask the hard thing of Him, e.g.- II Kings 2:10.

  • @naphtali_deer - One good thing about answering another's comment/reply is to come back and read your own answer.  What God has shown me in the past often applies again and again to what is happening now.

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Christian hedonist in training. Pressing on to know more and more of the joy of the LORD. Pleading with God to rend the heavens and revive and refresh my own soul, as well as His Church, to His praise, honor and glory.

Thank God. He can make men and women in middle life sing again with a joy that has been chastened by a memory of their past failures. ~ Alan Redpath

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