A GREAT ROCK IN A WEARY LAND

Since I came back from my needful holiday I found myself working non-stop. I love getting back into the game, so to speak but little did I know that I was once again caught up in the monotonous drag of a daily grind. If I am not careful I will grind myself to a spiritual halt – a burn-out! Honestly, there’s so much thing to do and so little time BUT life is not to be lived with such drag. I need to back off a little. Perhaps that’s why I am down physically – forced rest from work. I have been sick for the last four days and have not been eating well. Today I am much better therefore I write. Ha-ha.

Isaiah 32:2 - Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

Reading within context, the Messiah, the God-Man Jesus Christ will be a hiding place from the cold penetrating wind of wintertime; he will be an impervious shelter from the unpredictable storms of life; he will be like streams of fresh and refreshing water in a dry place and the shade of a great Rock in a weary land. How true! Just by the very description of our Messiah and Redeemer Jesus Christ gives us the sense of assurance that there can never be any situation, circumstance or condition of life that God is NOT there in the midst of it to protect, to lead, and to supply!

There are many situations in my life that could make me question his existence, his love and reality BUT at the end I found that if I am not focus on “poor me” and allow him to speak through the circumstances and even the harsh condition of life I would finally be able to hear him speak – in stillness or even in the midst of the cacophony of noises. But if I choose to concentrate on WHY this and why that I would end up making an impatience demand for answers that I least expect and that could destroy the very reality of who God is! God is no-man’s debtor. He cannot be cowed into giving us what we want to hear but what we need to hear.

I know there are people who ended up with the picture of God as a monster – an image that they have painted because they were unable to relate with the Creator because they wanted answers on their own terms. There are some things that we may never be able to fully explain, to grasp, and to comprehend fully about Him and His work. There will forever be questions on the problem of evil, the judgment of God, why He hated Cain and love Abel. There will always be mystery about the work of salvation.

But for me my love relationship with the Father is simple – all that I need to know about Him is plainly written in His word to us (the Holy Bible); accept it, believe it, and apply it. The revelation of God will be made clear each day through the power of the Holy Spirit as I walk in obedience in my daily life. But if I choose to only understand if I can make complete sense, beyond reasonable doubt, and answer to every question succinctly then I have closed myself to any revelation from God who is the very source of my inability to know and explain everything!