An Ever-Watching God
For
those of you who have been following my Pastor’s Devotion blogs for any length
of time know that I am pretty regular about writing and posting. For the past month, however, it has been very
difficult for me to write, both in terms of time and my emotions. Even as I write this blog I am sitting in my
father’s room at the nursing facility, hearing him struggle with his
breathing. When I come into his room in
the morning, I never know what I will face.
On top of my dad’s decline, my mom now needs round-the-clock care, only
making the situation much more complicated and difficult for my siblings and me. Needless to say, at this moment, life is not
the way we would like it to be.
I
guess that’s the reality of life: it doesn’t always turn out to be the way we
would like it to be. Yes, there are the
joys of life—e.g. the graduation day, the wedding, the birth of the baby,
holidays spent with family and friends—joys we must never forget nor take for
granted. But, we cannot escape the fact
that there will be the difficult times in life—the loss of a job, times of
illness, times of financial strain, the loss of a loved one.
This
week, as my mind has been mostly set on the difficulties of life, I came to
Psalm 121 in my devotional reading. It
is a psalm in which the psalmist repeats the thought of an ever-watching God.
His point seems to be that, no matter what we are going through, God is
watching. Although it may seem as if God has abandoned us, he has not. Although
it may seem as if God is far away, he is not. Although it may seem to us as if
God has fallen asleep and left us on our own, he has not and does not. In fact,
he not only watches, but watches over us
as a good, loving, and caring father does.
Whatever we may be
facing today, we can take comfort in the knowledge that we have an
ever-watching God—a God who continually watches over those whom he loves.
“…he who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, he who
watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord watches over
you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand…The Lord will keep you from all
harm—he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and
forevermore.”
(Psalm 121 –
NIV)
Have a great
day!
Pastor Tim Harris
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