I gave my testimony in church Sunday. I spoke from Psalm 35. I love the image it presents of all this warfare and being attacked by something bigger and stronger. Something that is too powerful to take on by yourself. So what does the Psalmist do ? He calls in the big guns, more accurately he calls in His Father. It just so happens that his daddy is also the Creator of the Universe, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the wisest , most powerful BEING that has or ever will exist. And oh yeah,, He LOVES David, and David knows this. Kinda cool huh?
So many times when I feel like I am under attack from somebody or something, I am learning to cry out to my daddy, Abba Father. My typical human response is to become angry, depressed, fight back, become indignant , complain, whine, gripe. After all it is not FAIR. What did I do to deserve the cop pulling me over just become I forgot to use my turn signal when there were no other cars around? I did not deserve my husband being rude to me, or not calling to say he was going to be 3 hrs late coming home from work. I did not deserve the bad attitude my kids were giving me, or a hundred other things that happen during the day. Then a gentle voice reminds me , "ah yes my child, but Jesus did not deserve the beatings by the soldiers, or the mockery of the crowd. Was it fair for the perfect unblemished Lamb to die on the cross? ".. Hmm well, I guess not Lord.
So what can a person do in those situations? He can simply and humbly bring his problems and complaints and sit them at the feet of the Master. Its like when my kids are fighting. I always tell them that if there is a problem they need to come tell me. If they just take matters into their own hands, then they are taking the risk of forfeiting my parental protection. If they bring it to me though, I can console them, pat them on the back, and sometimes I will punish the offender if I deem it necessary.
Just as my kids do not always know or see when I punish one of their siblings for a wrongdoing, we do not always know or see when God is dealing with a situation. Honestly we may never know this side of heaven, how the situation was dealt with. The important thing though is that we bring it to God, set it down before him and let him take the hurts, the cares, and the burdens on his shoulders. Best of all, He takes us into his lap and puts his loving arms around us and says , "shh, my child I will take care of it". Somehow it always seems a brighter day when I know that God is taking care of the situation.
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