When you are at the breaking point

Have you ever been there? … at the point where you begin to wonder, “What is God thinking?”

At that point where everything seems to be against you… the point when finding something positive in the situation is hard?

You begin to hear only the negative…

Everything people say seems to be a personal attack… or a put-down.

You wonder if He is even watching.  You want to echo David’s sentiments of “God, are you just going to stand there?” (Psalm35:17) 

You want to yell, “COME ON LORD… DO SOMETHING!!!!”

I’ve been there.  Truth be told… I’m standing there right now.  I’m standing in the place of “How long?”

“Lord, how long wilt thou look on?” Psalm 35:17

 “O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! [even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!” Hab 1:2

“O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?” Psalm 80:4

“My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?” Psalm 6:3

“How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever?

how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily?

how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?” Psalm 13:1-2

 

When you have lost a lot… and stand to lose more… you always wonder… when will it all end?

But God is not gone.  And He is not standing doing nothing.  He is there.  And He has perfect perspective.

When we are in troubled times we tend to look at the height of the waves… and forget that He controls the sea.

When we are in a place of financial desolation we tend to focus on what we want… and forget that there is a brook and ravens that will provide what we need.

When we have heard the Word of God promise to deliver we tend to look at the calendar… and forget that He is not bound by time.

“How long?” is such a man-made term.

To God…how long… is in the past.

It is finished.

If you are going through a rough time, a time of uncertainty, a time of “how long” … I think it is good to hear that it will be at just the right time.

“And it came to pass, when the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem,” Luke 9:51

When the time is come that the promise He gave you should be received… He WILL steadfastly set His face to you as well.

SDG