Good Times, Bad Times

UV 3504/10000 Good Times, Bad Times
They are new every morning; great and beyond measure in Your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3 v 23


God is a consuming fire. We cannot ignore Him, cannot violate His commands. But along with His great power, is His attribute of compassion. His faithfulness to His promises is infinite, immeasurable. The current pandemic can be seen as a visitation of His immense power and judgement of the world, a world that has ignored and violated His word. Yet, He does not afflict us willingly. He will not reject us also forever. We need to go to Him daily and avail of the fount of the waters of His mercy. The word says that His mercies are new, fresh every morning and beyond measure.


We cannot win today’s battles with yesterday’s faith. We need to come close to the Lord, drink deep of His word and be renewed in strength, in grace, in wisdom, in faith and in love. Every day is a new essay in experiencing God’s mercies and grace. When we are afflicted, we should wait quietly and with hope and trust in His merciful and compassionate nature. God has afflicted us for our discipline and for our benefit. He knows the time and place to lift the affliction from our lives. He will not test us beyond our strength but we need to build our faith, our endurance, our patience.

Both adversity and good times come from the Lord. We have no reason to complain. Instead of being driven into depression by the enemy of our souls, we should test and examine our ways, ask the Holy Spirit to reveal if there is a wanton sin or a hidden sin in us. The Lord will surely take us from the pit of destruction and lift us onto the Rock of His salvation- Jesus, our Lord. Our belief will give us relief. Jesus will plead as our Compassionate Advocate on our behalf. He will repay the wicked according to their ways but the faithful, the just, the repentant, the humble He will by no means cast away. Some people choose to harden their hearts in hard times but we should soften our hearts with the tears of repentance and compassion for the world.