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Friday... I want to understand, I really do...


Friday... In what we have gone through this past year, have you ever stopped and said, I really want to understand what is happening, I really do? But most of the time it has been, I really don't understand.

Has this been you more than you want to admit? Psalm 74:13-14 (NLT), "Did I keep my heart pure for nothing? Did I keep myself innocent for no reason? I get nothing but trouble all day long; every morning brings me pain." I'm sure there has been a time or many times that that type of thought has passed through your mind this past year.  

The Psalmist in his honesty goes on, verse 15 (NIRV), "What if I had talked like that? Then I wouldn't have been faithful to God's children." But it is so easy to say what we feel without thinking about the consequences and the pain it can cause others. Oh yes, we can have our doubts and we want to share our deepest feelings so we head to the internet not thinking about those we might hurt.

He goes on, verses 16 & 17, "I tried to understand it all. But it was more than I could handle." Is that you? He then says, "It troubled me until." There is another one of those great words. "It troubled be until I entered God's temple. Then I understood..." Now you might say, see, there is the problem, I can't go to church. But that is an excuse. God is right there with you, His Word is right there with you, a mature Christian is just a phone call or text away. 

The MESSAGE says, "Still when I tried to figure it out all I got was a splitting headache . . . Until I entered the sanctuary of God. Then I say the whole picture."

The Psalmist in verses 21-26 (NLT) says, "Then I realized my heart was bitter, and I was all torn up inside. I was foolish - I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you. Yes I still belong to you; you hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny. Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever."

Yes we may have doubts. The Evil One will make sure of that. But God's Word and His Spirit is there to show us the whole picture. As the Psalmist says, "My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever." Then I understood. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

  

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