Caught Up In The Moment….

Why do we forget this? Why is it so easy to get caught up in the moment, focusing on ourselves? How is it possible to forget, or lose sight of Who is in Charge? God is sovereign. He is in control. He knows the outcome of our problems. He knows the beginning and the ending. Human beings have a knack for putting themselves above God. I know, I do it. When this happens stress, anxiety, depression, are few examples of what creeps in. Sadly, no amount of medication will solve the problem, but only prolong it. God is the Answer for the world’s problem. He is also the Answer for this problem too. When we focus solely on ourselves, we don’t see God working through it all. It’s not until we seek Him out in the mist of it all, that we experience the peace and comfort that’s talked about so much in the NT. If we work on our relationship with God all the time, these stressful times won’t seem so bad because we can focus on His promises, and His abilities to help us through them. He is the only One that can help us take the focus off of ourselves, our problems, and infuse us with the only remedy, HOPE. He will never disappoint, never. Get right with God. Seek Him in good and bad times. Your life will be more steady, even when great storms arise, because He is an immovable refuge and fortress. Hezekiah got this message loud and clear when Isaiah told him about King Sennacherib’s bold speech defiling the God of Israel.

22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?Against whom have you raised your voiceand lifted your eyes in pride?Against the Holy One of Israel!23 By your messengersyou have ridiculed the Lord.And you have said,“With my many chariotsI have ascended the heights of the mountains,the utmost heights of Lebanon.I have cut down its tallest cedars,the choicest of its junipers.I have reached its remotest parts,the finest of its forests.24 I have dug wells in foreign landsand drunk the water there.With the soles of my feetI have dried up all the streams of Egypt.” 25 “ ‘Have you not heard?Long ago I ordained it.In days of old I planned it;now I have brought it to pass,that you have turned fortified citiesinto piles of stone.26 Their people, drained of power,are dismayed and put to shame.They are like plants in the field,like tender green shoots,like grass sprouting on the roof,scorched before it grows up. 27 “ ‘But I know where you areand when you come and goand how you rage against me.28 Because you rage against meand because your insolence has reached my ears,I will put my hook in your noseand my bit in your mouth,and I will make you returnby the way you came.’ 2 Kings 19:22-28