How Long, Lord? another Whisper from Your Father, God

How Long, Lord?

My soul is in deep anguish.
    How long, Lord, how long?

⁴ Turn, Lord, and deliver me;
    save me because of your unfailing love. Psalms 6:3-4 NIV

My silence to act creates an invisible trust in my care for you. My silence is not an indictment that I do not care or that I am detached from your pain. For I am not slow as many perceive me to be in my actions to respond. Even now, I am orchestrating the events in your life for my glory.

This does not mean that I want people to speak evil of you.  This does not mean that I want bad things and people to come against you.  I do not delight at all in your pain whether it comes from others or if the pain is self-inflicted by your own willful decisions to stray from my path. 

I am never thinking to myself, “I hope that you finally hurt bad enough.” Why? Because, My Son experienced that exact pain.  He knows what it feels like to be attacked and ridiculed when he had the best intentions.  He knows what if feels like to be abandoned by everyone, including his closest friends.  He knows what it feels like to be separated from my favor as He took all your sin upon himself. I turned away for a moment until the sacrifice was complete.

May my Spirit encourage you right now.  May you let Him breathe upon you a renewed hope and trust in My unfailing love for you.  May you sense His guiding hand upon the decisions that you need to take today.  May you and My Spirit keep in step like the perfectly choreographed ice skaters.  And when you fall, My Spirit is by your side to lift you up to finish the dance.

I am with you in the waiting.  Though I tarry from your perspective, I am walking right beside you into eternity.

Whispers from Your Father, God