Thoughts for Another Day

June 6, 2011

Today's verse: Deut. 7:21. “You shall not dread them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.  (NASB – copyright acknowledged)

(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)                                                                                    

As I walk along the journey of life, many obstacles stare in my face.  Some, though difficult to cross, seem bearable; for instance the loss of a job: I'm suddenly caught without a job and a family to fend for and nowhere to turn, yet this obstacle I'm able to bear because the Lord helps me get financial help from an unknown quarter and also provides a job in due time.  Again, I've crossed the hill and still not married.  My contemporaries are all settled with kids.  God, I cry, why don't You give me a life mate?  No answer.  Yet, I trudge on keeping hope in a God who never fails and so am able to cross the hurdle.

There're other obstacles that seem very difficult to circumvent.  My husband suddenly dies and has left me with two young children with no planning and no financial benefits.  How am I to look after the children and enable them to make career choices they'd be good at; even if I'm able to somehow to feed them and take care of their basic needs?  I just can't figure out what to do, the future seems so bleak.  Then again, there're obstacles so larger than life that it's like staring at the icy hand of death each day as I'm afflicted with blood cancer and the doctors have given up on me saying, well whatever little of life you have, life it fully!  Fully? How? Can anyone tell me and really, this obstacle is enough to bring out a cold sweat every night in me and each passing moment is like the burning of the string attached to a pack of TNT.

And while I think of the ups and downs life has in store for us humans, I wonder why we're born, why and how we live and then die; death seems better than life as Solomon says in Ecclesiastes.  What's the purpose of it all?  Then gently comes a voice, 'I'm with you always, even to the end of age.'  That changes it all.  The presence of my Mighty and Merciful God makes it all so different.  Meaninglessness becomes meaningful for life takes a new meaning as I journey in it with the Lord.  And when I get today's Word, which assures me that the LORD my God in my midst is a great and awesome God, I can't help but jump and shout Hallelujah for I know all things are possible with Him and if I devote myself to Him, He will work out all for me and I now see my obstacles as mere stepping stones on which I learn to tread and use as a springboard to fly.