Monday, September 24, 2007

Psalm 27: Losing Heart

"Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord."

What causes a person to lose heart? What makes a person want to give up? Why do we ever entertain fantasies of running away? What causes us to have little enthusiasm for what we once found very motivating?

Your motivation to continue is only as strong as what you've placed your hope in. Perhaps this is why we so easily lose heart in the face of obstacles, opposition, or difficulty. Perhaps what we've unwittingly done is to have tried to build our reason to continue on the shifting sand of flawed and impermanent things that were never meant to be the foundation of our meaning and purpose or inner sense of well-being. No human being is capable of carrying your hope. This side of heaven we're all weak and flawed in some way. No circumstance can carry your hope. Every situation you're in is in someway touched by the brokenness of the fall and isn't under your control. Amassing physical pleasures and possessions won't give you lasting hope. For all of their momentary enjoyment, they fill the sense, but do not satisfy the heart. When you look horizontally for your reason to continue you'll inevitably end up losing hope.

This is precisely why you could hear no better advice than in the three words that begin and end the last verse of Psalm 27, "Wait for the Lord." What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for your husband to finally become romantic? Are you waiting for your wife to finally agree that your marriage isn't so bad after all? Are you waiting for that job that will fulfill you? Are you waiting for life to get easier? Are you waiting for your church to finally become all a church could be? Where do you look and say, "If only I had________ then my life would be_________?

There's only one place where stable and reliable hope can be found. There's only one place of rest for your heart and surety for your soul. There's only one reliable place to find your reason to get up in the morning and continue. There's only one source of motivation that's sturdy enough to weather the storms of life in a fallen world. "Wait for the Lord" really does say it all.

When your hope is in the Lord, when you're getting your inner sense of well-being and security from him, when he's the reason you continue even when things are hard, then you're building your life on something that's reliable and sure. When you're waiting on the Lord, you've placed your hope in One who's the ultimate source of everything that's wise, good and true. When you wait for the Lord, you're placing your safety in the hands of One whose power is unmeasurable. When you wait for the Lord, you're getting your comfort from One whose love is boundless. When you wait for the Lord, you can be secure in the reality that he rules over all things. When you wait for the Lord, you can live with confidence because you know that every one of his promises is true. When you wait for the Lord, you can be hopeful even in weakness because you know that his grace is sufficient.

We lose heart because we tie our hope to the wrong things. What are you waiting for? To what have you tied your hope? "Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.

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Amen, Brother!! My heart soars because I know it's all true! And the way you expressed it is so beautiful. Thank you! I will share it with many others.

 
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This reading just don't quite do it for me sorry pal. To think an imaginary character named the lord looks after us is foolish. Good things happen to us, not because we pray, it's because the energy inside ourselves is being allowed to shine. Good and bad times are the result of the constellations. Where all just energy when you break it down. You wanna believe and pray to something, then pray to the biggest body of energy you can see....the sun. At least it shows it's face and embraces us every day!

 
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مجموعه نستا مفتخر است با پشتوانه بیش از 25 سال پیشینه کاری موفق در این زمینه و تجربه ارتباط مستقیم با سرمایه­ گذاران و کارآفرینان ایرانی و خارجی، طی 10 سال گذشته، باتوجه به روابط موثر در داخل و خارج از کشور ، با توجه به تجارب قبلی از سال 1399 به طور رسمی و مدون علاوه بر فعالیت در حوزه مشاوره و مشارکت در زمینه سرمایه گذاری و صنعت ساختمان و … فعالیت­های خود را گسترش دهد.

 
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