When The Door Slams
I, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. When I heard and saw them, I bowed down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed these things to me. But the angels said to me, "Do not worship me! I am a servant like you and your brothers the prophets, and all those who obey the words in this book Worship God!" Then the angel told me, "Do not keep secret the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near for all this to happen. Let whoever is doing evil continue to do evil. Let whoever is unclean continue to be unclean. Let whoever is doing right continue to do right. Let whoever is holy continue to be holy." Listen! I am coming soon! and I will repay each one of you for what you have done. I am the Alpha and the Omega," the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. (Revelation 22:8-13 NCV)
If you have visited a hospital for crippled, mentally challenged or, abnormal children, there little bodies twisted, grotesque, sometimes hideous; if you have visited a home for the aged and beheld those pitiful vegetable state, kept alive sometimes by machines that prolong death and not life, shapeless lumps of flesh unable to live or die; if you have walked in cemeteries where they lie the bodies of countless soldiers, who died, some of them in vain; if you have looked on the victims of hurricane, flood and fire or the corpses of innocent men and women murdered by maniacs, if you have watched the haunting faces of alcoholics, drug addicts, the despair of terminal illness; if you have held the hand of a dying dear one where physicians and prayer alike have failed to save...If you have faced the ironic enigmas that add up to nothing in your arithmetic, if dreams have been blasted and hopes destroyed by the heartless law of cause and effect with no answer from heavens, your heart may cry out with the biggest word in your vocabulary, "My God, WHY?"
Think about this: We need not bombard heaven with all our "Whys" because God has answered all our agony and distress in one all-inclusive "Why." We can never fathom the depths of that "Why," but we can rest in the certainty that in it we found the meaning of all our troubles and the fulfillment of every shattered dream. It is the cry of Jesus Christ on the cross, "My God, my God why hast thou forsaken me?"
When that "Why" was uttered the greatest thing that ever happened in all history was taking place. It is beyond our understanding for if our poor minds could explain it, there wouldn't be much to it. And if we could understand it we wouldn't need faith. But there it is, the WHY of all WHYS that gathers up all the others and answers them forever.
Renewal: My struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore, I will put on the full armor of Go, so that I may be able to resist in the day evil, and having done all, to stand. (Ephesians 6:12-13)
Ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart and reveal any areas of unconfessed sin. Acknowledge these to the LORD and thank Him for His forgiveness
Never Rest Ministries
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