Good day dear friends. Receive this prayer, "Loving God bless the life and needs of this dear reader; in Christ Jesus I pray, amen."
Our text for today comes from Psalm 130: 1 Help, God - the bottom has fallen out of my life! Master, hear my cry for help! 2 Listen hard! Open your ears! Listen to my cries for mercy. 3 If you, God, kept records on wrongdoings, who would stand a chance? 4 As it turns out, forgiveness is your habit, and that's why you're worshiped. 5 I pray to God - my life a prayer - and wait for what he'll say and do. 6 My life's on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning.7 O Israel, wait and watch for God - with God's arrival comes love, with God's arrival comes generous redemption. 8 No doubt about it - he'll redeem Israel, buy back Israel from captivity to sin. (The Message)
If the bottom has fallen out of your life, the good thing is knowing the only way out is up. And you can't get any higher up than God. This message of the Bible has the writer experiencing what was for him an experience that felt like the bottom had fallen out of his life. He knew to call on God with those words pleading for help. He knows God and how God is, and that's a comfort for him especially in the state he's in. God is a God of mercy and I love this, "forgiveness is your habit." It seems that if more of us knew that, we could go to God as we should asking that God forgive us and help us move forward and upward in our lives. This psalm then shifts to a national prayer; God can deal with our needs and God can also deal with the needs of the nation, if the nation realizes that is needs God.
It is our job as Christians and as members of a Christian church to get the news out about God and God's love and mercy for all. People are not listening like the should about what God offers and so we miss out and suffer the consequences of lives whose directions have not been centered on love and mercy. At this writing our nation has suffered senseless shootings and murders, some based on hate, others on uneasiness within. Church, our job is to reach more and help more come to the love of God. It takes our going beyond our praying, which is foundational and important, but we have to take our message and presence to the streets. What are you willing to do?
PRAYER: Loving God, bless our nation and let me be part of that blessing. May our prayers lead us to action and to helping bring revival and renewal to lives which believe they are eternally lost. Guide us and lead us; we ask in Christ Jesus' precious and powerful name, amen.
Have a great and blessed day in the Lord.
Eradio Valverde
