Just realised it wasn't my 100 post. Had a few unpublished post in my inbox. :)
Well, thought of not posting till 2010 but wanted to share something.
As I mention in the earlier post that this year has been a rather humbling year and many times I felt that the words of the prophet of Jeremiah matched what I am going through only that mine was at a much smaller scale than his.
He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away,
He has broken my bones.
He has besieged and encompassed me with bitterness and hardship
In dark place He has made me dwell,
Like those who have long been dead...
Even when I cry out and call for help,
He shuts out my prayer...
He has filled me with bitterness,
He has made me drunk with wormwood...
He has made me cover in the dust.
And my soul has been rejected from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
So I say, "My strength has perished and so has my hope from the LORD.' ( Lamentations 3:14)
It seems as though God doesn't care at times about me. That He won't deliver me from my troubles and that I am unable to trust Him any more but almost as I have just utter these thoughts the following seems to follow
This I recall to my mind,
Therefore I have hope.
The LORD's loving kindness indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They aer new every morning;
Great is Thy faithfulness.
'The Lord is my portion,' says my soul.
'Therefore I have hope in Him.' (Lamentations 3:21-24)
Just as Jeremiah says that as Scriptures come flashing in my mind that I know God that you say You love me. You are my God; You cannot lie. Therefore I have hope. Even though all the evidence around me says it isn't true. Its not because I have figure it all out or understand it all but that God cannot lie.
Jim Graham says You tremble when you aer confronted with incomprehensibility! You tremble before a God you can't put in a box. A God you cannot figure out. Promises unfulfilled. Situattions that make no sense at all to you. but He says 'Casting all your cares upon Him, for He careth for you.'
Will end with this song.
Nothing is impossible
When you put your trust in God;
Nothing is impossible
When you're trusting in his Word.
Hearken to the voice of God to thee,
'Is there anything too hard for me?'
So put your trust in God alone,
And rest upon his Word;
For everything, Oh everything,
Yes everything is possible with God!
And I know that He cares. He saves. and He loves.
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