He Who Is Able to Keep You From Falling

Just yesterday, my 3 and 4 year old children were playing on the stairs - they are open on one side, so the children like to climb up the support post like little monkeys up a tree.

"Don't worry.  I'm watching you.  I won't let you fall," my daughter reassured her little brother.

And I thought - hmmm...that sounds familiar.

"Now to him that is able to keep you from falling..." Jude 1:24.

I like to know that God is able to keep me from falling.  That he's got my back.

But sometimes I feel like I'm falling and falling and falling, with no end in sight.  Have you ever been there?  Have you ever wondered, "Oh yeah?  Where are you now?"  I feel a little edgy even writing that.  You can't talk to God like that, can you?

Well...actually, you can!  How do I know?  King David, the most prolific writer of psalms, wrote many laments.  He just poured out his heart to God.  No reservations.  No holding back.  Here's one:

Psalm 13

How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts

and day after day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, Lord my God.

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,

and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

But I trust in your unfailing love;

my heart rejoices in your salvation.

I will sing the Lord’s praise,

for he has been good to me.

Somehow, after David poured out his heart - even the ugly thoughts about God - he remembered that God can be trusted in.  That He should be praised.  That He is good.

A lesson to me.  To remember daily.

I pray you can pour out your heart to God, too, whatever trials you're facing.

He's listening. 

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