WOW
How is it that God ALWAYS finds a way to
communicate to me not only that He cares for me, but that He has it all
covered, He has walked that road, and that even when I do not 'feel' His
presence, He is here with me.
I've always had the tendency to go into a
depression especially when I do not sense the presence of God in my life. Since our 'experience' in December it has not
really been a problem, but I can feel it out there in the fringes just waiting
to pounce on me if I give even an inch.
I do not 'feel' God very often lately, but I know He is with me. I'm sending this devotion from today (good
evidence that God is on the alert as usual!).
Did you get my email with my musing from
yesterday? I added that to my web page
also. You can see it at: http://amante.bella.googlepages.com/home
This devotional helped me today. So here it
is and the site:
Thursday, April
12, 2007
MY HEART IS LIKE WAX; IT IS MELTED
WITHIN MY BREAST.
Psalm 22:14
Our blessed
Lord experienced a terrible sinking and melting of soul. "A man's spirit
will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear?"1 Deep
spiritual depression is the most devastating of all trials; nothing compares to
it. No wonder the suffering Savior cries to His God, "Do not be far
off," for more than at any other time a man needs his God when his heart
is melted within him because of heaviness. Believer, come to the cross this
morning, and humbly worship the King of glory as one who has been brought far
lower, in mental distress and inward anguish, than anyone among us; and
consider Him a faithful High Priest who is able to sympathize with our
weakness. Especially let those of us whose sadness springs directly from the
withdrawal of a present sense of our Father's love enter into near and intimate
communion with Jesus. Let us not give in to despair; our Master has already
walked this dark road. Our souls may sometimes long and faint, and thirst even
to the point of anguish, to see the light of the Lord's face; at such times let
us calm ourselves by focusing on the sympathy of our great High Priest. Our
drops of sorrow may be forgotten in the ocean of His griefs; how high ought our
love to rise! O strong and deep love of Jesus, come in like a flood, cover all
my powers, drown all my sins, wash away all my cares, lift up my earthbound
soul, and bring me up to my Lord's feet. Let me lie, a poor broken shell,
washed up by His love, having no virtue or value; but knowing that if He will
bend His ear to me, He will hear within my heart faint echoes of the vast waves
of His own love that have brought me to where I am happy to stay, even at His
feet forever.
1Proverbs
18:14
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Spurgeon, revised and updated by Alistair Begg. Copyright (c) 2003, Good News
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