“The righteous cry
out, and the Lord hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.”
Psalm 34:17
The songwriter wrote
the words “Cry Out to Jesus”.
That is the right
approach.
So often instead of
crying out we drone on and on with whining.
We live, sometimes
way too comfortably, in our misery.
We find it easier to ‘live
there’ (at the crossroads of misery and despair) than to cry out to Jesus.
Why, we’ve even been
known to come to the altar and whine.
An altar is a place
of sacrifice.
Imagine the sacrifice
of whining being offered.
Would you accept it?
Did Abraham whine
when he was commanded to offer his only son Isaac?
He wrestled with it
perhaps but we find no record of whining.
His act of obedience
was met with God’s provision.
His son was not
offered up.
God would offer His
own son.
He didn’t whine
either.
Not the Father, not
the Son.
Jesus cried out to
the Father while He was on the cross.
We have the tiniest
of crosses to bear (by comparison) and we cannot stop whining.
Ask God to let you
hear yourself the next time you are whining.
Then take a lesson
from yesterday’s blog and listen well to yourself.
Is that the pleasing
sacrifice you want to offer to God?
Cry out – but don’t whine on!
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