Always there
- Saved on Purpose
- May 30, 2021
- 4 min read
Man.
That's powerful.
Through it ALL He was, is and will be there. From the beginning, in the middle and until the end of all time.
I have been listening to a daily Bible study, that's leading to reading the Bible in a year. Currently we are in Kings and Ecclesiastes.
Oh how I love Ecclesiastes.
It's ever so convicting, sometimes depressingš, yet oh so good.
The author helps lead us to the reminder of all things under the sun... are merely just a vanity. But to continue to seek an eternity with our Lord through ALL the trials, through all the joys and pain, through all the "vanities" in this life, He continues to show us, He is with us through it all. To sharpen us, to make us better, to push us to grow closer to Him in every way.
Today's Gospel (Matthew 28:16-20) shows us this amazing way we can relate to the disciples.
Even after pursuing what they were told to do, they still doubted. But! Jesus continued to show them, EVEN AFTER DOUBT, I am always with you! Just keep the faith!
The eleven disciples went to Galilee,
to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.
When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted.
Then Jesus approached and said to them,
"All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.
And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age."
"I am with you always."
This year has brought a lot of darkness for me. That's hard to admit. Things of this world have been revealed to me that I wish I could un-see. Things about myself that I thought were healed, weren't quite repaired. This pain settled into my heart and has creeped out in ways I wish I could erase. Life has been anything but simple, pushing me in ways I never thought would be that big of a deal. Things that some would (and have) just mustered through, have worn me down to the point of just feeling completely broken. In trying to understand all the why's, I have brought myself great stress, worry, fear, a feeling of ZERO control. But even in the midst of it all, I continued to seek God's amazing Grace, because I know He will provide a way out. I witness it daily in those around me (God's Grace), and I have felt it deeply. I have stored it in my heart for the days I knew would come ahead, days when I too may question or doubt, screw up or forget. Because undoubtedly, it happens. We make mistakes, we fall short, we drift.
But, even when we hurt,
He is there... bc we keep Him there, even when we doubt, He is, and will ALWAYS be there.
Remember this:
There is A Time for Everything
Ecclesisates 3:1-17
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.
What do workers gain from their toil? I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toilāthis is the gift of God. I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him. Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before; and God will call the past to account.
And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgmentāwickedness was there, in the place of justiceāwickedness was there.
I said to myself,
āGod will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.ā
He uses it all. He wants us to draw closer to Him, in everything we do, in every way we live, in every moment of life. So that when the day comes that this life we lived, is through, the day when we get to spend an eternity with in Him... In Peace... FOREVER, it makes every bit of the journey,
WORTH IT!
If you find yourself living in a time of Ecclesiastes, trying to understand all the ins and outs of this life you live, know this, REMEMBER THIS! He already has it all figured out.
And He is with us through it all.
He is with us always, until the end of ALL the ages.
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