There are times when we feel like we are all alone and God has abandoned us to our sorrows and situations. On the journey called life, we encounter many roads, hills and valleys. We end up in our valleys and wonder if we will ever get out. It is in this time when we feel like we have been abandoned by God and left to live in despair, but what if we are the ones who abandon God?
Webster's Dictionary defines abandoned as forsaken or deserted. The Bible says in Hebrews 13:5 "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” If God never leaves us or forsakes us, how many times can we contribute our life's calamities to us leaving Him or failing to wait on Him in our situations? We have to chose to wait on God, even when it feels as though we can't hear Him or He isn't answering us. We can also chose to move in our own power and allow life to happen according to our will and not God's will. It is in those times (when we choose our will); that we end up in situations that seem hopeless.
There are verses in the Bible that indicate the people abandoned God and He allowed them to walk alone, since His will and way are ordered to the Kingdom of Heaven. He is a gentleman and will not impose His will on our will; which is why we have free will. Here are a few situations:
Deuteronomy 29:25
Deuteronomy 32:15
2 Chronicles 24:18
Webster's Dictionary defines abandoned as forsaken or deserted. The Bible says in Hebrews 13:5 "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” If God never leaves us or forsakes us, how many times can we contribute our life's calamities to us leaving Him or failing to wait on Him in our situations? We have to chose to wait on God, even when it feels as though we can't hear Him or He isn't answering us. We can also chose to move in our own power and allow life to happen according to our will and not God's will. It is in those times (when we choose our will); that we end up in situations that seem hopeless.
There are verses in the Bible that indicate the people abandoned God and He allowed them to walk alone, since His will and way are ordered to the Kingdom of Heaven. He is a gentleman and will not impose His will on our will; which is why we have free will. Here are a few situations:
Deuteronomy 29:25
And the answer will be: “It is because this people abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the covenant he made with them when he brought them out of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 32:15
Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.
2 Chronicles 24:18
They abandoned the temple of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem.
The promise of God is to never leave or forsake us. He is a promise keeper and a soul chaser. He never gives up on us. In Romans 10:13, the Lord say, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved". Most often, we trust in our own ability to get what we want rather than leaning on the Lord and trusting His time, ability and will for our lives. In God's silence is a message of waiting, praying and worshiping until the answer arrives. It is also a time to focus on those around you in a real crisis. Our small trials are often pale in comparison to the great disasters happening in the lives of people near and around us daily. The answer arrives with the calm assurance of peace.
Slow Me Down Lord
Slow me down, Lord;
Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me amid the confusion of the day the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.
Teach me the art of taking minute vacations,
of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend,
to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book.
Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to send my roots deep
deep into the soil of life's enduring values,
that I may grow toward my greater destiny.
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift,
that there is more to life than increasing its speed.
Let me look upward to the towering oak
and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
Author: Owen L.Crain
Slow me down, Lord;
Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me amid the confusion of the day the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.
Teach me the art of taking minute vacations,
of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend,
to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book.
Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to send my roots deep
deep into the soil of life's enduring values,
that I may grow toward my greater destiny.
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift,
that there is more to life than increasing its speed.
Let me look upward to the towering oak
and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
Author: Owen L.Crain
