You sometimes feel that God has forgotten you, but you remember God is good and upright and guides the humble in what is right. All the ways of the Lord are loving and faithful. Your eyes should be ever on the Lord for He will guide your life. Wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Isaiah tells you, "Come now, let us reason together, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be white as snow", (Isaiah 1:18). The Lord is ready now, are you?
Identify your problem---maybe it is bitterness about someone or some event that's happened in your life. Bitterness is a sin and can devastate you. Do you have something against a brother? Forgive him even if he was wrong, because without forgiveness only bitterness remains. "There is no torment like the inner torment of an unforgiving spirit" (Ray Burkhaulter).
Whatever your problem, you must start by praying and confessing to God what sin in your life is holding you back and destroying you. My good friend Ray Burkhaulter put this in an unusual but provacative way. His definition of prayer is "you get ahold of God".. I have never heard it put that way as a definition, but I don't think you could say it any more succinct.
Get ahold of God, and get going. He will teach you by the work of the Holy Spirit what you should do. But by all means, do something. Bitterness is a dry stream and will not satisfy.
If you trust God and ask for grace to heal, it will be like sunshine breaking through storm clouds, you will witness the work of our Almighty God. Suddenly the waters will rise and you will no longer experience---
"Springs Without Water"
in your life. God loves you with an outrageous love---after all you are His beloved child.
Psalm 25-27 Isaiah 1 Francesca Battistelli Max Lucado Proverbs 20
Ray Burkhaulter
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