Read 2Kn. 18:14-19.
I do not know what you are facing or going through right now but I do know that at one point in time in our lives we are all trapped in hopelessness. We are just helpless and don’t know what to do. Sometimes it’s like why should I go on living? Why should I go on doing good and helping others when it only gets me into trouble, pain or rejection? Oh, what a mesh have I gotten myself into.
Dear friend you are not alone in this, Jesus our traveling companion also found himself in similar situations. In the introduction of his 2016 forty days journey (Lord, have mercy), Fr. Edmund Emakpor reflected that Jesus too was helpless in the adversities that confronted him. He who owns the world and created it could not control where he was born; neither could he control the pains he suffered. At a point his hunger had a better part of him and had to curse a fig tree that was not at its season; his friends abandoned him, and suffered rejection and betrayal from his disciples. He passed through series of frustration and suffering that it seemed God has forsaken him (Ps.22:1).
In all these helpless and hopeless situations Jesus turned to the only one who is and was capable of giving help – his Father. He asked his father to glorify his name even in the midst of all these situations and the father replied “I have glorified it and I will glorify it again” (Jn. 12:28). In Mt. 26:39,42 he asked the Father too to have his way.
King Hezekiah too was confronted with his when he was faced with the threat from the emperor Sennacherib. He ran before God and tendered his case of helplessness (2 Kn.19:14-91). Just as God heard king David in all his peril; Jesus in his last agony, God also heard him.
Like king Hezekiah, why not tender your helpless and hopeless cases before God today.
I do not know what you are facing or going through right now but I do know that at one point in time in our lives we are all trapped in hopelessness. We are just helpless and don’t know what to do. Sometimes it’s like why should I go on living? Why should I go on doing good and helping others when it only gets me into trouble, pain or rejection? Oh, what a mesh have I gotten myself into.
Dear friend you are not alone in this, Jesus our traveling companion also found himself in similar situations. In the introduction of his 2016 forty days journey (Lord, have mercy), Fr. Edmund Emakpor reflected that Jesus too was helpless in the adversities that confronted him. He who owns the world and created it could not control where he was born; neither could he control the pains he suffered. At a point his hunger had a better part of him and had to curse a fig tree that was not at its season; his friends abandoned him, and suffered rejection and betrayal from his disciples. He passed through series of frustration and suffering that it seemed God has forsaken him (Ps.22:1).
In all these helpless and hopeless situations Jesus turned to the only one who is and was capable of giving help – his Father. He asked his father to glorify his name even in the midst of all these situations and the father replied “I have glorified it and I will glorify it again” (Jn. 12:28). In Mt. 26:39,42 he asked the Father too to have his way.
King Hezekiah too was confronted with his when he was faced with the threat from the emperor Sennacherib. He ran before God and tendered his case of helplessness (2 Kn.19:14-91). Just as God heard king David in all his peril; Jesus in his last agony, God also heard him.
Like king Hezekiah, why not tender your helpless and hopeless cases before God today.
Remember they are not yours, take them to God today and don’t cry hopelessly about them. Ex.14:14 says God will fight for you, all you need do is to keep still. In 1 Sam. 17:47 David said it belongs to the Lord.
For today I want you to identify and list out all your hopeless and helpless cases and bring them before the Lord. Personalize the prayer of Hezekiah and put in your cases. Then hand them over to the Lord just as David handed over Saul to God (1 Sam. 24:13-16), in short nail them to the cross of Jesus and leave them there. Then trust God as both David and Hezekiah did.
Then sing: “I depend only on You, King of glory, I depend only on You, Lion of Judah.” Pray too with Deut. 7.
SHEPHERD ME O LORD BEYOND MY STRENGTH.