“Take my fret, take my fear
All I have, I’m leaving here
Be all my hopes, be all my dreams
You’re my delights, be my everything”

-David Crowder Band-

So it’s been a while but I finally came around to writing something new, (thanks to someone, they know who they are). The four verses above are just so amazing. How I wish I could always think like that when things look their darkest. To just be able to turn to God and say here God, here are my worries, my stress, my fears my guilt. And it’s something I have started to do, now I wake up every morning with a huge smile on my face stand in awe of God and his greatness. I started reading a new book called O Lord, How Long? Meditations on Evil and Suffering by D.A. Carson.  This book isn’t going to give you the answer as to why evil and suffering take place and the author even says it.  What he wants to accomplish is to make you aware that just because we are Christians doesn’t mean we are exempt from suffering.  He says in the beginning of the book that if you live long enough you’ll eventually experience pain and suffering.  But that’s just a part of life.  How you deal with that depends on if you are wholly putting your trust into your saviour or if your only putting a percentage of it in Him and the other percentage your putting into either an ordinary human like a spouse or significant other(Psalm 118:8), or a career, or a hobby, or whatever the case may be, eventually that person or thing will disappoint you and will shake you to you to the very core of your existence.  But if you put wholly trust in Jesus and just give him your frets and fears and struggles and what you see as obstacles in life, I can guarantee you that when hard times hit, you will not fall, nor stumble. Your rock of salvation Christ Jesus will hold you up and keep you firm and steady.

I wanna end this post with Psalm 43 and a challenge,  

Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against

an ungodly people,  from the decietful and unjust man deliver me!

For you are the God in whoim i take refuge; why have you rejected me?

Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me

to your holy hill and to your dwelling!  Then I will go to the alter of God,

to God my exceeding joy, and I will praise you the the lyre, O God, MY God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?

Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, MY salvation and MY God.

 

So I challenge anyone reading this,  are you wholly putting trust in Christ?  If not maybe it’s time to make a change.

Grace and Peace

-Ron-