Friday, March 5 – Sometimes it's hard to hold on….
LENT 2010 “40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS”
DAILY BLOG Week 3 Friday, 3/5
Is 55:1-9; Ps 63:1-8; 1 Cor 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9
“My soul is satisfied as with a rich feast,
and my mouth praises you with joyful lips…
My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.” Psalm 63:5, 8
This Psalm is meant to inspire us to surrender our wills, so that we can become enveloped by and in God. Like the proverbial mustard seed, God works with what is – even if we are completely lost. God works with us, and the whole time we are thirsting and seeking for God, we are held in God’s hand. It’s a nice thought, and hard to hold on to when things are going rough.
What were your most difficult times, when you could not sense God’s presence? What sustained you?
God’s presence is always there, sometimes we question it but He is always there. Prayer and really good friends sustained me during my difficult time. My friends always reminded me to have Faith in God and that everything would be ok. They were right….prayer and faith is how I am sustained.
I don’t like surrendering my will, but when I have, I just start to laugh. I thought nothing else could go wrong and when it did, I knew I could do nothing, so the burden was lifted. Sometimes the bad was resolved and sometimes I just survived it. It comforts me to think that God is with me so I do.
The time that comes to mind is when my son died and I was having a great deal of trouble getting ready for the funeral and coudl not seem to walk but I Mother siad hold out one hand to me and the other to God and he will help and he reallly did, I could have made through those darks without him