As most of you already know, many of my God conversations happen as I walk the path around my backyard lake. Amidst North Carolina bright blue skies, I wonder, praise and listen to our Heavenly Father share His messages. That was, until lately. The past few nights God has chosen to shine forth His guiding bulletins in Midnight darkness, not in the clarity of our usual daylight heart to hearts.
Not in fear or restlessness have I been awakened. More a sense of inner sorrow and searching prodded my eyes to open. I felt God’s peaceful presence, just like on my bright daytime walks. With calmness, my thoughts began to stir.
Why, God, is our world so torn apart and vile? Why, God, has thirst for political power to destroy all opposition replaced hunger for petitioning Your strength and mite to protect and defend all Your obedient, meek and humble children? How, God, can we know what direction and choices You are calling us to decipher? What, God, are we, Your faithful family, to do?
My next thought was not of question but, rather, filled with awareness. Just like on those daylight walks, I felt God’s company in the black of night. Lesson illuminated: God does not abandon His children in the darkness of earthly trials and tribulations. His guiding, protective arms are evermore around us. However, maybe to feel the security of God’s arms, mankind must stop knocking down what is outside us and start building up our God, who is inside us.
God, then, imparted radiance onto a Biblical direction lost amidst present day hostility. Throughout Scripture, we are instructed to cry out to God in all our times of trouble; and He will hear us. Currently, though, it might accurately be said much of humanity seems to have fallen away from offering our Heavenly Father’s listening ears our cries for saving mercy. Instead, society’s screams, directed at earthly adversaries and seeking their destruction and damnation, are breaking earth’s sound barrier. Maybe, herein, lies great threat to man’s future – not only on earth but also for eternity.
A final thought to ponder: Does God call us to warring screams at each other, or to crying out to Him for the peace and mercy of His ways to lead and guide us, as we follow? “The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry.” Psalm 34:15 (KJV)
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 