It is hard for me to move away from the earthquake in Haiti. Right now rains are falling in California and washing away dreams as houses collapse and people slog through the streets. I watched last night as parents made pleas on television for their missing children who have been buried in a Haitian hotel. My youngest daughter Becca wants to run an orphanage overseas some day. It made me think of how I would be praying and what I would do as a father if she was running an orphanage in Haiti right now. There is a helplessness that can be overwhelming. There is a verse in Psalm 11. It reads, "When the foundations are destroyed, what will the righteous do?" The psalmist must have felt what we feel. He goes on to remind himself, "The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord is on his heavenly throne." That is a great reminder. Some of you have had days when the earth moved, when the foundations crumbled around you. In Haiti it happened in less than a minute. I guess that is the way it happens for most of us. A single phone call and life changes and the ground shifts and we feel the swaying in our bones. When that happens to me I will need friends to gently remind me that the Lord is still in his heavenly temple, the Lord is still on his throne. When the foundations crumble we run to the only One who is beneath even the foundations of our lives. I want to be there even before the shaking begins.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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It truly is all about a personal relationship with Jesus with roots nestled so deep and intertwined so tightly in the truth and in His love that one knows the Foundation the Rock can not be shaken.
"But as for me, I look to the Lord, I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord will be light to me. Micah 7:7&8
Bow down in worship and pray for there is nothing our God is not lovingly involed in and nothing is to hard for Him.
Amen to your post and the first Anon. post. God is never shaken. He never leaves his throne. He is always Sovereign. His judgements are true and his mercies are new each morning. This life we live is but a vapor, but from everlasting to everlasting, He is God!
Great post! Thank you!
It is a great reminder that God is ruling on his throne making the earth but his footstool, but he still looks for the man who is humble, repents, and trembles at his word. That is what the righteous do, and they will live by faith.
Isaiah 66:1-2
1 Thus says the LORD: "Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me,and what is the place of my rest?
2 All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD.
But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
"We were not redeemed for heaven but redeemed to bring heaven to earth."
God bends down from his throne He hears the sound of the weeping and knows their broken hearts.Their cries reach His ears.
Everything he does is intertwined with compassion.
"Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in His Holy habitation" Ps.68:5
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