1 December 2021

In the last little while there has been bad news. News about people who have found out they have cancer, have cancer back again or have tragedy in their families.

The world situation is still very dire with the covid-19 virus. Isolation, families split apart, businesses struggling or already gone to the wall. So many people’s livelihoods at risk. Mental health and depression are on the rise with people not getting the help they need. Loneliness is an epidemic.

My thoughts go to, “Lord where are you in all of this?”

Most of these people with sickness or tragedy in their lives are good people. They are trying to live good lives.

So again, I question, “Where are you Lord?”

I bumped into a stranger who shared her life with me, she is struggling following God, believing that things will get better, she too is questioning, “Where are you Lord? I’ve been crying out to you. Where are you Lord?”

I believe our God is just like described in 2 Chronicles 16:9

The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. 

2 Chronicles 16:9

As I get older and have walked longer with My God, I know He is faithful. I know that He has walked with me and looked after me over the years. It is my Saviour that has saved me time and again. Saved me from wrong decisions, saved me from circumstances in my control or even out of my control. He has sent me strength sometimes by me recognising His help and sometimes not.

But My saviour is not mine alone. I am just part of his perfect plan. He is OUR Saviour who has saved and continues to save His People. I am a part of the big picture, a very small part.

The Holy Spirit reminds me that,

…all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 8:28

God works all things for good! He works it all out.

So I need to lean into God’s plan, to trust in Him, not in my understanding.

As in Proverbs

Trust in the Lord with all your heart
    and lean not on your own understanding;

 in all your ways submit to him,
    and he will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:5-6

I would like to encourage you in your walk with the Lord. He sees. He knows your situation. He cares. He weeps when you weep. He grieves when you grieve. He understands how you feel, He himself has felt those emotions. And He will strengthen you to endure, He will come and rescue you,

As my Mum said to me last week, a very wise woman, “We need the Holy Spirit to sweep across the earth and into our lives.”

What does the Holy Spirit bring?

Truth.

Guidance.

Supernatural power.

Love.

Protection.

Faith.

One who comforts.

Intercessor. Advocate.

So may the God of all, the Almighty, send His Holy Spirit upon this earth, upon all of us. To strengthen us, to help us, to comfort us, to open all of our eyes to the truth, to love more, to receive guidance for the right choices in life, to send His power when we need it, to protect us and to intercede for us before the Father.

Holy Spirit come.

My heart still cries, “Where are you Lord?”

but changes quickly to “Thank you Lord, that you are here.”

What does your heart cry when life happens to you and things occur that you had not planned?

May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’

Love

Rosemary

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

What does your heart cry when life happens to you and things occur that you had not planned?

Have you ever cried out, “Lord where are you in all of this?” Have you felt God respond?

Do you need to ask the Holy Spirit to come into your situations?