Psalm 121:1-4 “I lift up my eyes to the mountains – where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip – He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
God’s will always occurs in spite of our plans; His will is not hidden like a buried treasure; we cannot control it or force it into happening. Sometimes His will is quiet and uneventful, but at other times it is grand and glorious, but there are times when I am in the midst of what is occurring, and I don’t like it, and I believe it is awful and terrible. I can either be anxious and upset and attempt to search for a better “will of God” than what is occurring or I can trust God and what He is allowing in my life and believe that He has a purpose and a reason for everything that is happening and that He really loves me and has my best interests at heart. I believe at times I am so far away from God that when His will occurs, I do not see it coming and I cannot fathom that this is what He really wants for me. I attempt to control the course of my destiny that He has for me and try to vigorously press the reset button as if this is not supposed to really be what He wants, but yet here I am. It is often during these difficult and raging storms that I stop and pause and I look to the mountains, I look to the ocean, I look to God’s creation in the hopes that by looking to His beauty, I will find Him and His will for me. Taking a long walk on the beach and going on a hike up a mountain trail is always very therapeutic and healing for me because when I go there, I ultimately always look up and take my eyes off the creation, and place my focus on the Creator and it is there I cry out for help.
Ephesians 3:17-19 says, “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” What is the fullness of God? God is my Helper, my Keeper, my Protector and my Preserver; He will always keep me from harm; He will always come alongside me to help me when I am weak; He will always protect me no matter where I go; He never lets my foot slip because He establishes a strong foundation in my life that is immovable and solid. He is like the mountain that cannot be shaken and I am indwelt with the Holy Spirit and Christ abides in me at the moment of salvation. Christ finds His home in me and I find in Him my comfort, my rest, my contentment and my satisfaction. When I come to a place where I trust His lordship over my life and I am rooted and grounded in His love, I will begin to understand the fullness of God and I will come to know the vastness of His love for me, the breadth, the length, the height and the depth that surpasses all knowledge. Christ’s love is far beyond the capability of human reason and experience and when the Lord fills us with His fullness, we become strong spiritually, we become compelled by divine love, we are totally dominated by the Lord that nothing is left of the human self. His power, His majesty, His wisdom, His love, His mercy, His patience, His kindness and everything that He is, will be transferred into my life as a result of my total devotion to Him. It is the ultimate emptying of myself and the completeness and fullness of Him dwelling within me. And this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, that all believers become as Godlike as possible and that our humanness will be completely diminished. The God that neither slumbers nor sleeps, He is my ever present help in times of trouble, He is my rock and my strength, He is the wind beneath my wings as I dwell beneath the shadow of His wing.
– Melody
