Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Oh our God is so great! Great is He who created all that is created and who has created us to His exact design. He created all the creatures of the earth and He gave them to man to love and care for. He also gave to man plants to likewise love and care for. How highly does He love man and place man to rule the earth that He created? His love for us is beyond our ability to conceive and we are called not to fully understand His love but to fully receive it. He loves all and calls to all to come and receive from Him. He, the Majestic One is in stature and greatness far beyond man or any created being or thing. There is none like Him and nor will there ever be one like Him. He gives us understanding that can only be fully known and assimilated into the very being of those who truly love and honor Him. Only by those who bow before His Son to call Him Savior and Lord. Within those titles of Jesus, are the whole of His loving message to us. Those who hate and reject the thought of needing a savior and lord will not, indeed cannot, know the fullness of His love and mercy. It is well said that no-one can fully know what it is like to have children until one has them. Likewise no-one can know the bliss of requited love until one has it. Highest among all blessings, among all joys, is the receiving and holding dear the love of God, who first loved us. He does not love as the world loves, but loves us as only He can love. Only those who humble themselves before Him can know this highest love. In His love is a joy that not only endures through hardship, but grows stronger through the trek.
For those who hurt, and we all sometimes do, God, the Mighty One to whom none can see and not fearfully tremble, He who is the Creator of all that is created, it is He who is the most fearsome of all, and whom is also the most tender of all. For those who love Him, truly love Him, He is the Mighty Warrior who has no equal and He is the comfort where there seems to be no comfort. To the hurting, to those to whom hope is merely something to hope for, He bends down to closely look at us face to face, eye to eye, to say “Look at me, I am with you, we will do this together.” God, who loves us, is so very, very good! All children of God, let us look to Him, the Mighty One, and receive His love that is sweeter than the imagination and stronger than anything known to man. Jesus said ““Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Jesus, the incarnate Word, was expressing not only His love, but the love of the Father (John 12:49).
When we are crying, let us cry to the Lord. Why do we look into our thoughts, our memories, our reasoning or anything else for comfort? True and lasting comfort, eternal comfort, comes only from God. Cry to Him and do not tell Him what we need to be comforted, but rather receive what He gives as comfort. Just open our hearts and minds to receive what He gives. He gives Himself. He has given Himself. Since there is none and there is nothing like Him, the giving of Himself is the highest gift and what we most need. Given by the One who knows what we most need because He knows us better than we know ourselves. Look to God. Receive Him. Therein is our peace and comfort. Whatever has overtaken us, we have Him as our comfort. Look at no-one or nothing else. He alone is the cure for our woes. Praise our God! Praise God!
Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!
Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.
Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.
Numbers 6:24-26 “The Lord bless you and keep you; 25 the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26 the Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.”