Psalm 22:1-3 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Being forsaken is one of the deepest pains to cut the human soul. The agony of rejection and aloneness pierces deep within the inner being. Our God has promised that He would never leave us nor forsake us, yet the psalmist David, who was a man after God’s own heart, cried out in his feelings of forsakenness. And Jesus, God’s only Son, uttered these same prophetic words as He hung between heaven and hell crying out, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” No more painful words have ever been spoken. Has God forgotten His promise or even worse has He been found unfaithful? God forbid. God is faithful. His promise to never to leave us nor forsake us was made to His redeemed children and not to Christ. Jesus was forsaken that we would never be. There will be times in our Christian pilgrimage that we may feel forsaken, but our Heavenly Father is always there. He may even lead us to these deserts of trial. These are times of testing. These dark times are not for us to test God’s faithfulness but for Him to test our faithfulness. Will we still trust Him even when we cannot see Him? Will we say as the psalmist in these tough times, “Yet, You are holy” which confirmed in his spirit “My God can do no wrong.”
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
All Things Are In His Hands
Daniel 8:15,17 When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.... 17 … But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
God is God of the past, the present and the future. He knows all things and controls all things. He is the Sovereign Lord of all. Even before the onset of time and creation He decreed a plan for His creation; and He has the wisdom and the power to fulfill that plan. If He is not able, then He cannot be God; but He IS able. He allowed Daniel a glimpse of the future through visions to assure Daniel that He is in control even to the end of the world. This gave Daniel great peace and assurance knowing that He served the Sovereign Lord of all things, even the sitting up and the tearing down of kings were in His hands. Daniel did not need to understand all things. He only needed to understand that God understood and controlled all things. This should also give us great peace and comfort. God is in complete control of all things. He knows our beginning and He already knows our end. Therefore, why should we fret? Time and even the events of time are in His hands and His perfect plans will not falter.
God is God of the past, the present and the future. He knows all things and controls all things. He is the Sovereign Lord of all. Even before the onset of time and creation He decreed a plan for His creation; and He has the wisdom and the power to fulfill that plan. If He is not able, then He cannot be God; but He IS able. He allowed Daniel a glimpse of the future through visions to assure Daniel that He is in control even to the end of the world. This gave Daniel great peace and assurance knowing that He served the Sovereign Lord of all things, even the sitting up and the tearing down of kings were in His hands. Daniel did not need to understand all things. He only needed to understand that God understood and controlled all things. This should also give us great peace and comfort. God is in complete control of all things. He knows our beginning and He already knows our end. Therefore, why should we fret? Time and even the events of time are in His hands and His perfect plans will not falter.
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