Thursday, June 26, 2008
Psalm 119:49-56 Comfort
Oh how I love to be comfortable... There is nothing better than to sink down into a soft chair with the warm sun on my face and just relax and be comfortable. Wouldn't it be great if life was always that comfortable. Unfortunately, we have jobs, children, neighbors, disease, death to name a few to make us uncomfortable. It is easy to get into a pattern of just making our lives comfortable but I usually feel like something is about to happen when I start to feel comfortable. God might move us to another state, my husband may lose his job or we might have a death in the family. Verse 50 says "My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life." What a wonderful thing to remember when things big or small just are not going our way. Do you have comfort in God's promise to preserve your life for eternity?
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I love God's promise of comfort through suffering. Never are we guaranteed a life that is easy. Never does the Bible tell us life will be comfy. Pain is inevitable, but we have his Presence. I think you can only get that when hard things happen......
Psalms 119:50: When I'm in the midst of suffering my greatest comfort is knowing that somehow God is using or will use my suffering for his glory. What a huge, magnificent God we have to be able to take the messes I create, the ugliness of sin, the heartaches, the wrong paths I choose, the sorrows of this life and use them for his good to bring about his purposes. I can't even begin to imagine how He can do this. Thru my suffering, he prunes the dead and unfruitful branches of my life to build and mold my character. When the times get tough, the tough turn to God for strength and power.
All I know and experience is that when I'm suffering this is truly the only time I'm calling out to God with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength. It's when I'm heavily seeking God's advice (GOD: SOS! HELP! then 10 minutes later, Help God, this is more than I can bear). It's when I'm actively listening for God (GOD, I'm listening, you gotta tell me what to do!). It's when I want to be comforted by God and feel his presence (God, do you really truly love me? Well nows the time when I need you the most to show it)
When things are going well in my life, I'm sorry to admit my reliance on God is pushed to the back-burner, my reliance on my self is magnified, my prayers and thanks to God are spoken half-heartedly. What happended to "with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength"? Amazing that God loves me in spite of myself, in spite of the wavering hot/lukewarm/cold passion and devotion I have for Him. This truly brings me comfort to know that God still loves me and has preserved my life to spend eternity with him (I'm so undeserving!)
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