Ok, so maybe life is not so bad. The DJIA went up 300+ points yesterday. But still the question hangs out there, "Do we trust that God will help us in our time of need?"
Through the scriptures God regularly hears the cries of the people. Consider the call of Moses. The LORD says, "I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their suffering, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians." (Exodus 3:7-8a)
The LORD God does deliver them from the Egyptians. God does bring them into a good land, a land flowing with milk and honey. This is the good part of this incredible story of our faith; they are delivered. The tough part is trusting God enough to hold on until the promise becomes the blessing. It took ten plagues, crossing a sea, and forty years in the wilderness before the promise was fulfilled, and even then the people doubted.
Trusting God in hard times is, well, hard. God does hear our cries. It may still take time to deliver on the promise.
Watch for "Do we trust God enough to share" coming soon.
2 comments:
It would be nice if we all had the faith of a life-giving world. For those people who sometimes forget the world is not all bad or going to hell, I submit a bit of additional news for the DJIA.
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/when-barry-ritholtz-talks-people-listen/
The only other thing I would add is perhaps America is the modern-day Egypt...
If that is the case then I should be praying more.
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