NOW ( tagged from my mail to my SFC family)

 

2100H 01.21.06

 

" Sana nandun ako sa chapter assembly ngayon...." That's all I am thinking about but with some reasons I didn't  made it..actually really, I cannot make it." So i just started to check my unread mails and it caught my attention...

 

 

RESTORE ME, O LORD -- Psalm 51:12 

Restore to me the joy of your salvation
       and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. 

 

 

It went straight into my very system, hitting directly my heart and my soul...Where did I stop? Why such feeling of misery despite all God's plan and promises for me...such little faith...such a stubborn daughter of God....how could i make it up to Him... and i go on reading the reflection....

 

"How is your relationship with the Lord doing?  Do you feel close and warm and intimate with Him?  Are you filled with the wonder and awe and joy of your salvation?  Or do you have trouble praying?  Do you find it difficult to relate anything in your life to Jesus?  Do things that once filled you with a deep feeling of regret, of guilt, of righteous anger, now create no reaction in you at all?  When you say the name Jesus, does it leave you cold where it once made your heart leap with joy?  When you see our country turning more and more away from God, does it bother you?  Or have you started to agree with all those "politically correct" views that seem so humane, so logical, so human?  Has sin in your life driven a larger and larger wedge between you and God?  Does the gulf between you seem so wide you'll never get across it? 

That's how David felt when he wrote this Psalm.  So very far from God, not only in his actions, but in his heart.  The joy was gone.  The warmth, the intimacy, the deep feelings of affection were gone.  But he remembered them.  He remembered the closeness he had shared with God all his life, the feelings of joy his many victories in the Lord had given him.  He remembered what he had once experienced with God.  And he wanted it back. 

You can do the same thing.  You, like David, can ask God to help you come back to a close relationship with Him.  You, like David, can have the joy of your salvation restored.  All you have to do is ask.  He's waiting.  Why don’t you do it right now… "

 

Yes. NOW.