Greetings, today will be the last day I write any more articles for some time as I have prayed to God the Father for guidance in a decision which I do not take lightly and can cause me much pain, discomfiture and obliterate whatever future may be in store for me. I was originally going to title this article “The Grand Finale?” however, after communing with God I have decided to name it “Are you facing adversity? Take Comfort in the Lord and find His rest.”
Many of us face adversity at some point in our lives and are uncertain as to how we should handle the situation. I also was likened unto this until God used a gentle fellow known to me as Tony the Tiger who shared the bus ride with me as I traveled to school. He revealed that all is an illusion and at first I just tried to ignore this for I thought I already knew this and for the most part I did, however I did not truly understand it until this latest adversity entered into my life. Most of us walk through this world searching for happiness and comfort using our eyes to view the world around us searching for that happiness. However, while it is possible to see this world we live in using our eyesight (for this world is one of material things) the illusion stems from the fact that it is not the material things of this world which make us happy but the intangible things.
I seem to be saying this badly by using the same tired old worn out rhetoric so let me try it another way: The material things of this world are here as a means of enslaving us to this world by the unseen powers which God has sanctioned as our antagonists. Their sanctification comes from the fact that we only grow through adversity. Well, let me stop rambling and get to my main point of this article; which is: The adversity I now face and the one thing which has led me to make this decision I now make as a consequence of this adversity is my certainty that God does not want for any of us to live in the way we do if it is not what we want and not in accordance with the precepts God has provided as our guide in this life and this world and to which those of us who are of God’s chosen love and follow.
On this eve of my nadir I have chosen to pray the prayer of the beloved of the Lord, King David which is given us in the Old Testament book of Psalm:
“Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Draw out also the spear, and stoop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek my soul: let than be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the Lord chase them. Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the Lord persecute them. For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause, they have digged for my soul. Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord: it shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from his that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him? False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not: With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink the eye that, hate me without a cause. For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me. Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up. Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me. Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant. And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.” Psalm 35:1-28.
Well, I shall end here in silent reflection and with the prayer of hope of salvation for us all. May love and peace be yours always, amen.
