Flipping
the script
Before
I start this blog, I have something to say. I realize in the past the
blog had an emphasis on Hope found in God’s Word. It still does!
For those that may not exactly see it anymore I’m still sharing what I’m
learning with you and since being divorced I’m on a road to recovery in my own
way but I’m still seeking after God. A friend of mine encouraged me
Wednesday, that I need to keep doing this. He even gave me back my own words that “if
just one person draws closer to God because of something I’ve shared then I
have accomplished what I set out to do “. I might be a little more
withdrawn and take longer breaks between blogs and I apologize I don’t always
have something to say. My friend encouraged me though because I may feel
like God is done with me at times but he’s not. I got told a few weeks
ago to possibly “recover in private.” That’s not me. I’m called to
encourage. If God can use my hurt in some way, then let it be used to
help someone else draw closer to Him with His Word because the Bible is more
important than anything I can say, and it is where all of us need to turn.
It’s simply my job to share it.
Now
onto a blog called flipping the script.
I’ve
been working through this plan on the Youversion app and I got reminded of
something because it basically took a thought and “Flipped the script” or the
perspective as it were. I’m going to show you 5 verses and then what part
of this plan says.
Psalm
22:1-5
“My
God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why
are you so far from saving me, so far from the words of my groaning?
Oh
my God, I cry out to you by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not
silent.
Yet
you are enthroned as the Holy One;
You
are the praise of Israel.
In
you our father’s put their trust;
They
trusted and you delivered them.
They
cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.”
Now
this is from a reading plan in the Youversion app called In The Lord I Take
Refuge.
“The
pain of feeling forsaken is not a rarity among the people of God. As life
unfolds before us, as we walk with God, we often battle feelings of wondering
where God is. ‘If God were really with me’ we may ask ‘would this be
happening?’
Where
is his fatherly care in this loss, in this sickness, in this depression, in
this pain?
These
feelings and thoughts do not take God by surprise. He has given us many
texts in scripture to care for us in these times of darkness. Psalm 22 is
one of these. ‘My God, my God why have you forsaken me.’ We cry out.
Perhaps the pain is too real to even tell another person about it.
We are suffering alone, the pain of solitude amplifying the agony.”
Before
we finish this thought in the devotional, I can tell you from experience that
I’ve been at that point where the pain feels too real to tell another person
but I’m here doing this blog thing trying to help another person who may be
struggling and that is why I can’t be completely private about this I must
share that there still is good news. To paraphrase a gold miner in
reference to the Bible “There’s gold in them thar hills.”
Back
to the reading plan….
“Notice
that David assumes that God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he
has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in
light of the promises made to David in scripture David ought to have known that
God would never have finally forsaken him.”
That’s
where the script got flipped for me when reading this because like David
there've been times when I’ve assumed God had forsaken me. I’ve felt
abandoned but I have enough promises in the Bible to make me keep returning.
I’m simply a flawed man trying to share what God shows me in hope that it
will help you. I’m going to end this with a verse we all need to
remember. I’ve had enough people encouraging me to do this writing thing
again that it got my attention. There was a nagging part of me that kept
saying “you’re divorced God can’t use you anymore.” That’s a lie!
Do you know why I know God can still use me?
Philippians
1:6
“Being
confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to
completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
