“Fix it Lord!”
Whenever things go awry especially when we
are frightened, worried and can’t fix it ourselves this cry goes out. Of course we use formal words like “We
beseech, thee, O Lord” but the meaning is clear. We want a fix done now. Then when the fix is not immediate, we launch
into a litany of pleas, day after day, sometimes hour after hour. We behave as though the God to whom we pray
is either deaf or indifferent and yet everything we know about God denies this.
We must rely on Scripture and experience to find
patience. Notice how the first words of every first
responder to a person in turmoil are “calm down”. If God seems remote to us,
certainly Jesus does not. Jesus, whom we
love, and who knows exactly how we feel is God!
There are not two of them; one we know and one we fear. God, the Creator the Redeemer and the
Sanctifier is One and loves us beyond measure. The real problem is that what we
want and what we need are not always the same and God knows it. Think of that image of the stone thrown in a
pond. The ripples go out and the effects
are numerous. Things happen, the
consequences are many and only God knows them all. We have to learn to trust in His judgment. It is the path to peace. Just know this “If God brings you to it, God will bring you through it.”
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