God lives and works today, but maybe you
don't feel that way.
Does it seem like nothing is going right?
Do your problems keep growing without any solution?
Today's meditation is the testimony of someone who
found herself in this situation and then experienced
God as a father of faithfulness.
Have you ever sat in a hole of
depression filled with worries, cares, and insurmountable problems?
At a time in my life when I
was in this condition, I received a card
from Mother Basilea.
On this card was a picture of a
child.
The child was enclosed within two large hands.
The inscription below read, God holds every person,
even the smallest child in his hands, as
though he cared for him alone.
On the back of it, Mother Basilea had
written, This is how God loves you as
his child.
Believe in his love.
He cares for you.
However, this card and these words didn't help
me.
As I shared these feelings, she gave me
the following advice.
I have found a key from my own
experience, which will open the way to the
comfort and aid of God when you are
depressed.
It is giving thanks.
Begin to give thanks in the midst of
your problems and difficulties, and sing such songs
as, Father, I thank you in midst of
my pain, for you turn suffering and grief
into pain.
It is in love that you discipline me.
Goodness and blessing the ending will be.
Bring yourself to your Heavenly Father in prayer,
committing yourself in full trust to him and
his ways of dealing with you, thanking him
for all of his ways.
Indeed, this was the key.
The more I called out who the Father
is, how good his ways were, how steadfast
his love and kindness is to me, not
only in my heart, but also aloud and
in song, the more trust and peace streamed
into my heart.
We wanted to share this with all of
you who are listening today, with the hope
that it will give you the courage to
try it out.
Yes, what we say about God determines what
we will receive from him.
If we praise him as the Father, he
will prove himself to be our Father.
If we praise his faithfulness, we will experience
it.
If we complain, however, that God is not
a Father and not a helper, we will
also not experience his help.
He takes us at our word.
He will act according to the way we
speak about him.
Towards a child, he is a Father.
So begin to praise God as the kindest
Father, full of faithfulness and love, as I
did, and you will experience that he will
reveal himself to you in just this way.
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