Friday, March 3, 2017

 
 
Devotional for Friday, March 3, 2017
“We Walk Before Him In the Land of the Living”
 
 
he loved me enough
 
 
by Dona Hake
 
Yesterday our meditation was upon the truth that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.   Our Lord never changes!  Today let us meditate on what He has delivered us from.  Many of us can testify of the fact that had we continued in going our own way, we would have been destined to a life of destruction.  But even that person that did not have a rough past has also surely  been saved from going to hell.  Oh praise the Lord today for He has delivered each of us from what we all deserved, for He paid the price with His precious blood.  That same God that has  promised to never leave us has assured us that He is always there  to listen to us.   His ear is always toward our cry and He longs to rescue us.
 
Have you ever had a conversation with someone, and in the midst of it you feel as if they were not listening closely.   Maybe they were preoccupied with something else but nevertheless this can be disheartening.   It can also be quite discouraging especially if you are sharing a hurt that is in your heart or you are upset.   Thank God that we serve a  loving God that always listens, and hears our prayer as we go to Him with humble hearts.  We will never find Him preoccupied or too busy to hear the cries of our heart.
 
I would like to share from Psalm 116. The psalmist begins the chapter by exclaiming, “I love the Lord, for He heard my voice…” He proceeded to say that he knew God’s ear was toward him, and then he said, “I will call on Him as long as I live!”
 
You see this psalmist understood that danger and  death was before him, and he had no where to turn. I am sure that what the writer went through was terrifying yet  he stopped and commanded his soul to return to it’s rest for God was with Him. This is what Psalm 116:7-9 says…
 
“Return to your rest, my soul,

for the Lord has been good to you.
For you, Lord, have delivered me from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before the Lord

in the land of the living.”
 
I believe this chapter in Psalms can serve to remind us that in trying circumstances we absolutely must call on the Lord for our help, and we must purpose to remind ourselves of His love and care over us. Lord, we thank You that Your ear is always open to listen to our heart’s cry no matter how big or small it may seem. We thank You for your faithfulness and lovingkindness toward us that we may walk before You in the land of the living!!