Hear my cry, O God;
listen to my prayer.
From the ends of the earth I call to you...
Psalm 61:1-2 NIV
This is a cry of desperation...of someone who is at the end of their resources...when hope seems to have expired.
And "from the ends of the earth" a place of aloneness, a place where God (apparently) is not...
Maybe you've been there, or someone you know has.
There's two things we can learn from this:
You're not alone. David (a man after God's heart) felt like this, Jesus when he was abandoned, betrayed and ultimately disregarded by the Father, felt like this, then we can too.
You're not alone
David found a way through this. So there is Hope.
Even when it feels that there is none...there is Hope
#hopeiscomingforyou
#yourenotalone
#psalms
#psalm61
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he ...
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