I am still coming out of this latest period of heavy spiritual warfare...
Nevertheless, the Lord has been slowly re-strengthening me.
However, as a result of this time of personal struggle, I have learned some deeper spiritual truths. Now I know what the psalmist, Asaph, meant in Psalm 73 when he said that as he observed the prosperous and carefree lives of the wicked, that his feet almost slipped. Asaph almost lost his faith in God. For in his mortal mind, he began to think that somehow God was unjust and that those who did not love the Lord were doing better than God's own children.
It is easy to think this way at times. I've been going through one struggle after another. Lately, I have grown weary of these battles. I've been feeling weak and rundown. Like Asaph, I too see worldly-minded people who do not love God. They seem to get one blessing after another. Their lives seem to be pain free. But as the Lord showed the writer of this 73rd Psalm, the successes and pleasures these people are now experiencing will not last forever. Like everyone else, they will have to leave this world one day. And they will not be prepared to meet the Lord at the great judgment.
Thus, through all my struggles, I have been assured that God does love me. The prosperity of the ungodly is only for a season. But those who love the Lord shall live with Him forever. We shall shine as the brightness of the sun.
D.B.
However, as a result of this time of personal struggle, I have learned some deeper spiritual truths. Now I know what the psalmist, Asaph, meant in Psalm 73 when he said that as he observed the prosperous and carefree lives of the wicked, that his feet almost slipped. Asaph almost lost his faith in God. For in his mortal mind, he began to think that somehow God was unjust and that those who did not love the Lord were doing better than God's own children.
It is easy to think this way at times. I've been going through one struggle after another. Lately, I have grown weary of these battles. I've been feeling weak and rundown. Like Asaph, I too see worldly-minded people who do not love God. They seem to get one blessing after another. Their lives seem to be pain free. But as the Lord showed the writer of this 73rd Psalm, the successes and pleasures these people are now experiencing will not last forever. Like everyone else, they will have to leave this world one day. And they will not be prepared to meet the Lord at the great judgment.
Thus, through all my struggles, I have been assured that God does love me. The prosperity of the ungodly is only for a season. But those who love the Lord shall live with Him forever. We shall shine as the brightness of the sun.
D.B.