Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. (Psalm 42:7 NIV)
We all have our battles to go through. Some are small and insignificant and we won’t even think about them this time next year. Others are ongoing…not unlike waves breaking over a bow of a boat, over and over again. We grow tired of the same old battles that seem to rear their ugly heads just when we thought we had them undertow. It’s humbling for sure. We know that those are coming back again for us, until we learn whatever lesson(s) Our Great God is trying to get through to us. We don’t like admitting defeat. We don’t like asking for help. In this Pinterest/Instagram world, we believe the lie that says everyone has it all together and figured out but us, and that’s the big secret that we try to keep hidden away. We ask, “What’s wrong with me?”
We’re sinful, but so is the makeup wiz on Tik Tok and ‘God’s gift to motherhood on YouTube! We are all pretty messed up! No one gets a hall pass to Heaven here! If we want to get in, we all have to come by the same ol’ way…the blood. That’s right! “Without the shedding of blood, there can be no forgiveness of sins.” (Hebrews 9:22)
What blood? The blood of Jesus Christ. There’s no other way. No other way. Period. “I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me!” (John 14:6 NIV)
Without the blood we are all floundering through life…trying to make all our hard work look good enough to get us into Heaven. The take away from that scenario..emptiness.
Without the blood we shipwreck our faith. We run aground and run ourselves ragged looking for ways to fulfill our dreams only to come up short. Sure, to some onlookers it looks commendable, but there, inside the deep, we know something isn’t right. We are exhausted and have exhausted every possible aid.
“Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horseman, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!” (Isaiah 31:1 KJV Blue Letter Bible)
Why do we do this? Why is it when we have an all powerful God, we tend to look to other gods for our help? We get on the phone and talk about it, we Google it, we go to food, alcohol, pills, pornography, Amazon…and even our own feeble supply of strength. You get the point. We won’t come to Him, and that’s a shame. Oswald Chambers said it this way, “Is it not humiliating to be told that we must come to Jesus! Think of the things we will not come to Jesus Christ about. If you want to know how real you are, test yourself by these words — “Come unto Me.” In every degree in which you are not real, you will dispute rather than come, you will quibble rather than come, you will go through sorrow rather than come; you will do anything rather than come the last lap of unutterable foolishness.”
We won’t come because we don’t know God. We don’t know the depths of His love. We don’t believe He will love anymore or in the same way. We don’t know His grace…His mercy…His forgiveness. We believe the lies that Satan whispers in our souls that, this sin, whatever it is, has breached the limit of His forgiveness. We can’t possibly go to Him now! And we don’t. A tragedy for sure. We fall into this trap because we aren’t praying. If we were we would know Him. If we know Him, we have the understanding that His grace has no limit. It’s when we won’t come to Him we should worry.
It’s an old tactic of the enemy to shame us into not coming to our Heavenly Father. Don’t fall for it! Do you remember in the garden? Adam and Eve hid from God when He came around to walk with them like He would normally do. The sin that promises to open your eyes to possibilities, closes your eyes to truth. The truth-He loves you now and will never stop! He yearns to be with you to give you all He has and is! Do you have children? It thrills me to no end to give them all they need and then some. How much more does God? Jesus put it like this,
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”Luke 11:11-13
Written by Carole Ann Landon
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