Choosing the Way of Truth...

Dear Girls,

Sometimes life feels like a constant weight.  Our very soul melts from under the weight. We cry out to the Lord like Moses did when he was overwhelmed in the wilderness.  

I am not able to bear all these people alone, because the burden is too heavy for me. “If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now--if I have found favor in Your sight--and do not let me see my wretchedness!”—Numbers 11:14-15

Or like Elijah did in 1 Kings 19:4:

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said, “It is enough! Now, LORD, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”

Or Job in chapter 10 verse 1:

My soul loathes my life; 

I will give free course to my complaint,

I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Or even David in Psalm 69:2:

Save me, O God!

For the waters have come up to my neck.

I sink in deep mire,

Where there is no standing;

I have come into deep waters,

Where the floods overflow me.

I am weary with my crying;

My throat is dry;

My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

God’s help and His sustaining grace was there for each of these men and it is there for each of us, also; when our way becomes heavy, dark and difficult.  He goes before us and makes the crooked places straight.  He breaks in pieces the gates of bronze and cuts the bars of iron.  He sends His angels to surround us, touch us, strengthen us and minister to our hearts.  As He did for David, in an acceptable time, He will hear us.  In the multitude of His mercy, He will lift us out of the mire.  Our God’s lovingkindness is good. Praise His name and magnify Him today with thanksgiving even and especially before He answers.  

Continue to choose His way of truth.  Ask Him to remove any false way from Your heart. He will teach You His statutes by His Spirit and enable You to walk in the “right” way.  Cling to His testimonies, my daughters!  Look to Him and be radiant...your faces unashamed because our God NEVER disappoints.  Draw near to Him in Your distress...He will enlarge Your heart to run the course of His commandments. 

Delight yourself also in the LORD,

And He shall give you the desires of your heart.

Commit your way to the LORD,

Trust also in Him,

And He shall bring it to pass.—Ps 37:4-5