#DailyDevotion Have Hope When It Seems God Has Left You & Forsaken You
Psalm 27 Don’t leave me or forsake me, O God, my Savior! 10If my father and my mother forsake me, the LORD will take care of me.
We cry out in doubt sometimes when we don’t feel the presence of the LORD. As we are undergoing some cross in our lives, we may cry out with David, |”Don’t leave me or forsake me, O God my Savior.” Yet in those words which sound of doubt there is faith. For we are still calling upon God as Savior. David in the midst of trials and tribulations fears the LORD will abandon him. Yet, he cries out in faith for the LORD not to do that. He even goes as far as believing that even if mother and father forsake him, the LORD will take care of him.
We need to remember words like these to pray when everything seems to be falling down all around us. When we lose husbands, wives, children, jobs, health and the like, it may feel as if the LORD has left us and forsaken us. Yet if we look to Jesus Christ on the cross crying out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me,” we know that He cried that out in faith. On the third day, the Father raised Jesus from the dead and sat Him down at His right hand in heaven. The Father didn’t abandon Jesus in the grave. He will not abandon you to whatever you are experiencing right now.
The LORD will take care of you. Jesus has promised us in Matt. 6:8, “Your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.” Again He says in Matt. 6, “26Look at the birds in the air. They don’t sow or cut grain or gather anything into barns; but your Father in heaven feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they?” Again Jesus says, “30If that’s how God dresses the grass in the field, which lives today and tomorrow is thrown into a stove, how much more certainly will He put clothes on you — you who trust Him so little?” Finally Jesus tells us, “Your Father in heaven knows you need them all. 33Seek first God’s kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you, too”
11O LORD, teach me Your way, and lead me on an even path as I face those who hate me.
The LORD was teaching us there in Matt. 6 about trusting God knows what we need and when to provide it. We ask the LORD to continue to teach us in the midst of our suffering His way. We need Him to lead us on an even path as we face our enemies who hate us, namely those authorities, powers, dominions and spirits of the air that hate us. God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are higher than our own. We need only read the Sermon on the Mount and on the Plain to hear the thoughts and the ways of our LORD and God. We need only look to the cross of Jesus Christ to know the mind of our Father in heaven. There we find our value and worth to Him, even if it looks like He values us like He values His Son on the cross. It doesn’t look like He values Jesus at all there. But there our sins are paid for. There our trespasses, iniquity and guilt are removed from us. There we know our Father’s great love for us and that while it may appear at times He doesn’t love us or value us, that is just our sinful flesh and the voice of our enemies talking. This is the way and even path the LORD reveals to us.
Heavenly Father, when we feel you are forsaking us and leaving us, reveal to us Your great love for us in Christ Jesus so we may not abandon all hope but cling to Your mercy and grace all the more and learn Your ways and walk on Your path. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.