Why do you hold back your hand, your right hand? Take it
from the folds of your garment and destroy them! (Psalm 74:11).
This psalm was likely written in the confused time after the
destruction of Jerusalem by the armies of Babylon. They smashed all the
carved paneling . . . they burned your sanctuary to the ground (vv.6,7). The psalmist asks the
question of God: What’s it going to take to get your attention? If the
destruction of your temple doesn’t wake you from your slumber, what will?
There are times we get to the end of our rope, thinking, God
has got to do something now, only
to be met with silence. It feels like we are completely alone. Sometimes the
rope breaks and we still don’t hear from God. What’s with that?
We just plod along, forcing ourselves to place one foot in
front of the other, until finally we’ve reached a safe place. And then somehow
we recognize that God has been with us all along. Even when it seemed we had
been abandoned, God was doing his very best work on our behalf.
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).
One of the hardest things in the world is trusting God when
we don’t understand what he’s up to.
TODAY’S MEDITATION
Have you ever given up on
God, only to find he was there all the time? Are you waiting for him now? Ask
for patience and for trust. Chin up.
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