Old Sandals

“For I am waiting for you, O LORD. You must answer for me, O Lord my God.”

For David, it wasn’t, “Well, if he answers, fine, and if he doesn’t answer, fine.” You must answer. My hopes and dreams, my reason for living, my reality –it’s all you, Lord, it is all you.

“The LORD directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall, for the LORD holds them by the hand.”

He delights in every detail. If this is so, we ought to pray about everything, big and small.

“Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the ocean depths.”

Ought not such a God fill our hearts to overflowing?

“Wake up! Rise to my defense! Take up my case, my God and my Lord.”

We have no case worth defending, if it is just our case. Rather, it is the case of my God that is worth defending. It is worth everything.

“You care about the anguish of my soul.”

Anguish. Lonely. Isolated. Beat down. Cutoff. Unloved. Uncared for. Disregarded. Passed over. Forgotten. Worthless.

And yet none of these because of the grace of God.

“The voice of the LORD splits the mighty cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.”

The LORD may speak in a still small voice, but when we hear it –really hear it– it is earth-shaking.

“Do not turn a deaf ear to me. For if you are silent, I might as well give up and die.”

How can an omniscient God turn a deaf ear to anyone?

The infinite God is a personal God. This divine oxymoron is exactly what is revealed to us in the scriptures.

To say simply that God is infinite is not to understand Him. To say simply that God is personal is not to understand Him. To say that He is both is to begin to understand Him.

My heart has heard you say, “Come…” And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.”

The voice of the LORD is something only your heart can hear. It is not a loud, boisterous voice. It is easily drowned out by all the other voices that fill the air.

It is more like an inner tug or pull in Heaven’s direction. Hard to define but unmistakable. “Come”.

“LORD, I am coming” is the response only your heart can make. A daily, intentional response.

Are you having that conversation?

“Now I stand on solid ground…”

When you’re standing on solid ground, you can take the next step with confidence. You don’t have to fear that you might slip.

This is how our walk with the LORD should be.

“Remember, O LORD, your compassion and unfailing love, which you have shown from long ages past.”

Unfailing love. In all circumstances. In time and eternity. In this world and the next. Right now and forever. Unchanging.