Have you ever been traveling at night and wound up on a very dark road; a road you’ve never been on before. What do you do? How do you find your destination? I have been there on more than one occasion – and it was right there and then that I decided I would pay for On-Star another year!
What happens when there is no On-Star – when there are no lights – and worst yet,iit’s not traffic directions that is your concern, what happens when it’s your life, that has lost its’ destination point and literally the light that you used to count on is out and you are facing pitch black midnight?
Unfortunately, hundreds of people, especially during this time of the year are facing this kind of darkness. What appears for a moment to be euphoria in an individual, can turn into clinical depression – and the euphoric state quickly turns into almost a morbid kind of sadness that is so strong you can feel it!
David, after being anointed king by Samuel, faced more than one time when it seemed as if all hope was lost – he was forever fighting a spirit of discouragement. Consider this passage of scripture:
Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Psalm 42:5
David bemoaned the state he was in – he was in a deep state of distress – but he talked to himself and said:
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God.Psalm 42:6
Again, the distress in his soul cried out:
6O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar.
7[Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me…
9I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God?
11Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me?
If we could hear the despair David was in, and remember that he was running for his life, hiding in caves, not knowing how he was going to survive from day to day – if we take into account the utter pain and suffering and loneliness of his heart – then we can more deeply appreciate the depth of his heart that answered back:
Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.
The enemy of our souls will talk to us, and at times we will listen, but if we let the depths of our soul cry out – it will remind of us the God who lives there!
Kairos,
Maria