In Psalm 61:1-2, David, finds himself in a cave…
1 Hear my cry, O God; listen to my prayer.
2 From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
In a dark, damp, dreary, depressing cave, David has experienced the loss of everything and everyone he has leaned on in his life. He is alone, defeated and discouraged. David is in one of the cave experiences of life.
Interesting isn't it? The same things that David could not "see" are things we struggle to “see” for ourselves. What David did not see at the time, but soon came to understand, was the fact that God was behind and in control of it all. David did not know it at the time but God was going to use his time in the cave to help him grow stronger in the Lord.
There are times when we too find ourselves in one of life’s cave experiences. We think all of our help and strength is gone. We feel alone, discouraged and deserted. Occasionally...down right angry> Ever been there? Sure you have. In fact, some of us are there right now!
When needed…God will bring us to the place where we are alone with Him and shut off from the rest of the world. We fear those times, but they often precede the times of God’s greatest blessings in our lives!
Think about this…David alone in the cave; Jacob alone in his tent; Elijah alone by the brook; Job alone yet surrounded by his friends; Moses alone on the backside of that mountain; Jesus alone in the agony Calvary.
Each of these experienced their greatest triumph after that time of being shut up and shut off by the Lord.
Sometimes there are things that are learned in the dark that cannot be learned in the light!
We may not like it, and we may not understand it, but when the Lord has brought us to a place where we have no one and nothing but Him …we learn that He is more than enough!
Yep…just sayin’
See You in Church!
Kelly
