Monday, September 30, 2013

God Will Bring Us

There are good times and there are bad times in life. Have you ever felt like there is this continual struggle back and forth between these two in your life? As believers we face these same challenges, but we have a hope. Our hope is in the Lord. But the daily struggle between these good and bad times can wear us down. This is not new to us, for all those that have gone before us faced these same feelings, yet God even then called to them as He does to us, to have hope.

In Jeremiah 30 God told Jeremiah that He heard the voice of the people. They had experienced the result of their sin, but He was delivering them. In Jeremiah 31:9 He tells Jeremiah that He, God, would make it possible for them one day to walk with God in His ways:

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a Father…

This same message is continued in Joel 2:32:

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered…

This message was continued when the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit in Acts 2, when in Peter was speaking in verse 21:

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

And it was echoed again by Paul in Romans 10:13 when he quoted the prophet Joel:

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

God always knew we would face troubling times or times of being wearied. From the very beginning He had a plan for us to be made whole. Our hope is in God, that when we call upon His name, the name of the Messiah Jesus (Yeshua), He hears us and will deliver us to walk the straight ways by the rivers of waters and be renewed.

If you are feeling weary, call upon His name, and let Him give you peace in your spirit and wholeness in your soul today.

Prayer
Father, we thank You for being our God. Thank You for creating a path home, even from the beginning. Thank You for always calling us back to the straight path by the river of Living Water, Jesus. Please encourage our hearts and renew our strength today, Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.