An online devotional I was reading
(which now I can’t locate!) had a phrase that really caught my attention. It
said something like, “despair being the vacuum of an idol”. I really like that
visual. It is normal to be sad over something, to feel lost and upset by a
change of season in our lives. Adjustment and understanding can be hard work! But
it is normal to feel a little out of sorts at first…what isn’t healthy, or intended by God is for us to pitch a tent
and move in to a place of despair. That space left behind by a broken dream, a
hope, a person that we still look toward. That vacuum pulls the life out of us
and suspends us in the middle of our own focus. Despair can cause us to drift
from the Truth ever so gently, that we never see how far the vacuum, “idol”,
has taken us. There is no compelling, no movement, no air for our soul to
breathe ~ only an empty idol of our own making.
God never intended this pain to be our
center of attention. When our hearts, minds and souls are centered on Christ,
HE brings us thru…HE is The Healer, Our Father who loves faithfully and
forever. When HE is our focus and our Focuser, there is no despair, no
place for a vacuum.
Jehovah Elohim Yeshua
Lord God of my salvation.
In doing a devotion about the names of
God, this one made my heart jump. HE is just that, and when we know this,
know Him, all those empty idols reveal themselves for what they really are,
empty.
Our God is The God of Creation,
of
every season in our lives ~
He moves us to
Places of Life not loss…
Clarity
not clutter…
Fullness not faithlessness…
Hope-filled not hopeless.
He knows our steps, our hopes and His
plans for us far outstretch our dreams. His Fullness, the Fullness of Christ is
the lifter of our heads, the joy in every moment when we look to Him, our Jehovah Elohim Yeshua
Expose all who drift away from your sayings;
their casual idolatry is lethal.
You reject earth’s wicked as so much rubbish;
therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say.
I shiver in awe before you;
your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.
their casual idolatry is lethal.
You reject earth’s wicked as so much rubbish;
therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say.
I shiver in awe before you;
your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.
Psalm 119:118-120
