Possible to love on God even when things are total hell? How can anyone do it? How did Job do it? How does a person get on their knees in praise to the Lord even when things are not working in their life, even when everything they desire or love is in turmoil with seemingly no escape? Someone please tell me. Anyone.
When life is seemingly nothing but a curse, when every step you take is just a step into yet another thorny vine that entangles and bloodies up your feet, sending you ten steps back to where you were, when life seems hopeless and unkind, unworth living for any reason at all, how...God in heaven or His people below...HOW are we supposed to muster up the love and praise for Him? Look at what He allows to happen in lives around the world.
We all know it must be possible. Job was put through some horrible stuff and yet he still managed to keep his mind on God, at least in the long run. But that was a different time, when God seemed to have personally communed with people as if He was standing right next to them. Nowadays, he seems so silent, so distant, so unobtainable. We know it's not true, but do we really feel it in our hearts? Especially when life ensnares our spirits, crushing them into oblivion, choking the life out of them?
I have a friend who I suspect is feeling this way. His life is in such shambles, and it breaks my heart that I can't do anything for him. But it breaks my spirit that apparently God isn't doing anything for him either. Why won't he intervene? Why won't a miracle be presented to him? Something that will bring him back his hope and His faith that God still loves him and hasn't abandoned him? I don't understand how he's supposed to continue calling on the Lord when nothing in his life is working, when every move he makes seems to be the wrong one, and it throws his life into even more chaos. I don't know what to do for him. I don't know how to encourage him. I don't know how I'm supposed to look at him in the eye and tell him that God still loves him and hasn't left him when his life runs the way it does.
How are we to run to the Lord when it seems the Lord has run away from us? He has suicidal thoughts, has lost all care for life, and for the people who want to love on him. Why won't God do anything for him? Are we supposed to earn God's intervention, his rescue?
I don't understand anymore, oh Lord in heaven. I don't understand.
When life is seemingly nothing but a curse, when every step you take is just a step into yet another thorny vine that entangles and bloodies up your feet, sending you ten steps back to where you were, when life seems hopeless and unkind, unworth living for any reason at all, how...God in heaven or His people below...HOW are we supposed to muster up the love and praise for Him? Look at what He allows to happen in lives around the world.
We all know it must be possible. Job was put through some horrible stuff and yet he still managed to keep his mind on God, at least in the long run. But that was a different time, when God seemed to have personally communed with people as if He was standing right next to them. Nowadays, he seems so silent, so distant, so unobtainable. We know it's not true, but do we really feel it in our hearts? Especially when life ensnares our spirits, crushing them into oblivion, choking the life out of them?
I have a friend who I suspect is feeling this way. His life is in such shambles, and it breaks my heart that I can't do anything for him. But it breaks my spirit that apparently God isn't doing anything for him either. Why won't he intervene? Why won't a miracle be presented to him? Something that will bring him back his hope and His faith that God still loves him and hasn't abandoned him? I don't understand how he's supposed to continue calling on the Lord when nothing in his life is working, when every move he makes seems to be the wrong one, and it throws his life into even more chaos. I don't know what to do for him. I don't know how to encourage him. I don't know how I'm supposed to look at him in the eye and tell him that God still loves him and hasn't left him when his life runs the way it does.
How are we to run to the Lord when it seems the Lord has run away from us? He has suicidal thoughts, has lost all care for life, and for the people who want to love on him. Why won't God do anything for him? Are we supposed to earn God's intervention, his rescue?
I don't understand anymore, oh Lord in heaven. I don't understand.
