God Seems Distant...

   

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-Gordon

The world is in turmoil right now in many different nations.  Many are coming up against their leaders in violent acts, which can become a very dangerous and vital situation.  I notice things in my own life that seem like they shouldn't be going on.  We cry out to God in confusion and pain, seeking mercy, and His love, and power of the Holy Spirit to get us through and beyond our situations.  But why then, does He seem so distant?  It's like driving to the top of the mountain on a highway, it seems like you never reach the mountain you have seen for the last hour.  Little do we realize, that mountain we could already be on our way to the top.  God is at our side through it all.  I think of Job...

Job 38:33-37:Do you know the laws of Heaven? Can you impose its authority on earth?  Can you command the clouds so that a flood water covers you?  Can you send out lightening bolts and they go? Do they report to you "here we are"?  Who put wisdom in your heart or gave the mind understanding? Who has wisdom to number the clouds? Who can tilt the water jars of heaven?     

No worldly being is able to make a situation different, when we cannot make it different on our own, it is all God.  Since Jesus came and died for us, He sent a "counselor" a "comforter" known as the Holy Spirit, which makes this profound existence of God even closer than we know.  He is in every situation, yet not always summoned.  God seems so distant sometimes, hard to reach...

Sometimes we forget that God is at our side no matter where we are, or what our situation is.  Why then, does He not always respond to our pleas and cries right away?  Test.  Testing our faith.  Satain tested Job, by stripping him of everything, to the point of his own wife telling him to "Curse God and die."  Satain tempted Jesus at the begining of His ministry, while He was in the wilderness.  Telling Him about bread, offering rulership, etc.  God was there that whole entire time.  God was watching us, and keeping us going, though we may not have felt it, or realized it at the time.  All of the violence going on, there is no real answer for.  I cannot claim it is part of God's plan, nor can I say it is not.  Times like these do allow God to work miracles in different peoples lives, and can be seen and witnessed on a whole new level.  As upsetting as it is, God can work in the worst of any situation.  We need to summon Him, and the power of the Holy Spirit!