He is working

DEVOTION

PSALMS

HE IS WORKING

 Ps 77

I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. 2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint.

 Selah

 4 You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak. 5 I thought about the former days, the years of long ago; 6 I remembered my songs in the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired: 7 "Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? 8 Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? 9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?"

Selah 

10 Then I thought, "To this I will appeal: the years of the right hand of the Most High." 11 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago. 12 I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds. 13 Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God? 14 You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples. 15 With your mighty arm you redeemed your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.

 Selah 

16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed. 17 The clouds poured down water, the skies resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth. 18 Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the earth trembled and quaked. 19 Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen.

20 You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

NIV

Sometimes we might think God is not as near to us as we would like. Sometimes we have not witnessed any miracles in our life. We pray, but nothing seems to happen. We get tired of praying and not seeing any results. People we love as still sick. People we love are not being healed. We are not being healed, we pray about our infirmity and it does not go away. We know God is there, and in fact that is the reason we pray. If we did not believe in God, why would we take the time to lament, to seek him for an answer? Why have we not experienced his compassion regarding our situation? But he is there, he has always been there. We have no reason to lose any hope at all. We recount the many times he did wonderful miracles in our life. We saw miracle after miracle. We heard his voice, audible as well as within our spirit. He has directed our path, opening a door when he closed another. He has healed us, first spiritually, second physically. He has provided when there was no provision. When we were in troubled times, like the poem, Footprints, he carried us through. He has always been at our side, being our God as he has declared we are his people. Our spirit is lifted to new heights each morning as we spend time with him, listening, meditating, and recording the thoughts he speaks into our heart. We are encouraged by his acts in the past and are inspired to believe for future acts in our life. Hope is not without cause. We have much to cause us to continue, to be steadfast in our hope. We can see him working even now. He is a mighty God who will never leave us, nor reject us. He loves us more than we can even comprehend. We do not deserve his love, but then he is God and his love is pure and unwavering toward us because we are not only his creation, but we have accepted his Son as our Savior. He still loves everyone, all his creation, and he is sad that his justice must send some to perish, but for those of us who belong to the household of faith, his love endures forever and he is pleased we are members of his flock, that we are called his children. He is overjoyed we are co-heirs with his Son. His joy is complete to know we will spend all eternity in his everlasting arms. What joy that also brings to our spirit. There is no cause to lament, to walk with a downcast continence. Instead, we lift our hearts, our voice and praise our Lord for he is worthy of our praise. We lift our heads and we walk in the light, no darkness is in our view, nor can it ever. We walk tall because we are people of the way, people of the God Most High. He desires to continue to great things in us and for us and though us.