Your love is faithful, LORD, and even the clouds in the sky can depend on you. Your decisions are always fair. They are firm like mountains, deep like the sea, and all people and animals are under your care. Psalms 36:5,6
In contrast to evil people and their wicked plots that end in failure, God will triumph. He is faithful, righteous, and just. His love is as vast as the heavens; his faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds; his righteousness is as solid as mighty mountains; his judgments are as full of wisdom as the oceans are with water. We need not fear evil people because we know God loves us, judges evil, and will care for us throughout eternity.
From their foundations, by undermining them, Jesus puts forth his hand to cleave even the hardest rock. He cuts out channels among the rocks; and his eye sees every precious thing. (Job 28:9-10)
He cuts channels to drain off the waters, which hinder his mining; and when the waters are gone, he is able to see the precious things in the earth. God’s promises to you in the midst of your trials are sure. One thing we can count on is that God says:
“And I will give them a heart to know Me…” (Jer 24:7)
So too, when Jesus is mining the heart of stone, He always finds something precious. The fact that we are called upon to endure trial proves that the Lord Jesus sees in us something very precious, which He desires to develop. And so He begins the mining process, which can be rough and painful at times.
If He saw in us nothing whereby He might glorify His name He would not spend time in refining us whenever he finds something precious during this mining process. We do not take special pains in pruning thorny shrubs. Christ does not cast worthless stones into His furnace. It is valuable ore that He tests.
The fact that we are called upon to endure trial shows that the Lord Jesus sees in us something precious which He desires to develop. If He saw in us nothing whereby He might glorify His name, He would not spend time mining the heart of stone; or in refining us. He does not cast worthless stones into His furnace. It is valuable ore that He refines.
And so everyone of our trials are opportunities. The very first opportunity being a call to prayer. The following poem will describe prayer for you very well from the personal experience of Jesus Himself:
In The Garden, Alone With Jesus
We live in a world of constant turmoil and trials. But it has been my lived experience that God will give us the strength we need; and He will look after all those things that we are unable to do ourselves:
The Garden Alone
Based on Luke 22:39-46
“And there appeared an angel unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him.”
God was with Him in the Garden, dark,alone
Jesus conquered sin by strength of divine
But the separation went deeper than bone
As the battle began our Christ drew the line.
The Father didn’t want to remove bitter cup
The disciples slept in great sorrow and fear
While Gabriel came in light,lifted Jesus up
Christ’s sweat poured out, in blood and tear.
As crises supreme did his heart and soul break
Jesus came alone, to fight by petition in there
The angel assured Him He could make no mistake
For He might answer with love the sinners prayer.
We each have to go to our Garden, stark, alone
We have to bring to Jesus our worries and care
And when we go, we shall see the great throne
For in the Garden; our Lord Jesus He is there.
Jesus conquered by strength surely not his own
We can have this very kind of encounter today
As we go by faith to our special garden alone
Walk securely with Him the blood-stained way.
Christ conquered in divine strength, and so must every tempted soul overcome. God was with Christ in the Garden of Gesthemane and by this experience of Christ, we are to learn to trust our heavenly Father; at all times, and in all places,we are to believe that he is tender, true, and faithful – able to keep that which is committed to His care. In the agonizing struggle of Christ, our Substitute and Surety; the Father was beside His Son, and He is beside every soul that struggles with discouragement and difficulty.
– David Battler, (all rights reserved, world wide)
Just as the revelation of depravity in Psalms 36:1,2,3,4 is awful, the revelation of the Lord’s love, in our opening text, Psalms 36:5,6) is even more wonderful. great mountains … great deep: The contrasts continue with David ranging from the highest mountains to the depths of the sea to describe the perfect character of God.
The height of the great mountains can be compared to how great God’s righteousness is; the depth of the seas can be compared with how mysterious and inaccessible God’s true judgments are. May we know, and love, and uprightly serve the Lord; then no proud enemy, on earth or from hell, shall separate us from his love. Faith calls things that are not, as though they were. It carries us forward to the end of time; it shows us the Lord, on his throne of judgment; the empire of sin fallen to rise no more.
How great is God’s love for all who worship him? Greater than the distance between heaven and earth! (Psalms 103:11) How great is God’s love for all who worship him? Greater than the distance between heaven and earth! How far has the LORD taken our sins from us? Farther than the distance from east to west! (Psalms 103:11-12)
They are gone. There is a chasm between us and our sins, which will never be bridged. To an infinite distance has the great Scapegoat carried away all the sins of his people; they shall never return to us.