God Doesn't Come and Go

June 10, 2013 - "God Doesn't Come and Go. God Lasts ( keep this in mind in  the  midst of  life's battles)

Today was particularly hard. I could not focus. Too many scattered thoughts. Dreams that seem so far away and yet they tear at the fabric of my heart. I want to just stay someplace cool and quiet and just write. Sometimes, the desire is so overwhelming. I feel as though something is wrenching me apart. But there are bills to pay. I must travel to Calabar and Yenogoa. I have the children...my mother...my marriage and other things to think about.

I had a dream the early hours of this morning. There was this mysterious body of water just behind my yard or was it in the bath tub in my bathroom? Well, there was this huge Animal thrashing about violently. It looked like a Whale or Shark; so enormous and wild. It reminded me of  the film   - "Jaws".  I was terrified and horrified and I hurried to look for someone to slay it and in comes  a man. I run out immediately too scared to look upon the the battle I imagined will ensue. 

Soon, the slayer emerges with what looked no bigger than a rat - lifeless, dead, inconsequential. I thought "what? Is that what has been causing this scare, this furore - is that what looked so mighty and foreboding?" I did not believe it. I went back to examine the water. It was all peace and calm; not even a stirring anywhere. I peered deeply into the pool which was clear and clean. I could see right to the bottom. Nothing. 

I went back out to examine the rat again; unbelievable!

It dawned on me that a lot of  the challenges that we consider life- threatening or larger than life are no more menacing than that dead, lifeless rat; especially when we keep our gaze on the Almighty,  the creator of heaven and earth rather than on the challenge at hand.  ( It  is  He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants  are  like grasshoppers... Isaiah 40:22 NKJV). Sometimes, this rat of a problem would keep one awake all night and cause some of us to be overtaken by compulsive eating!  

Let your mind dwell  on Almighty God and not on the perceived size of the problem.  Remember that  "God doesn't come and go. God lasts". He is with you for the long haul - no breaks, no slumber, no pauses, no bad days, no holidays, no hormonally - induced  highs or lows. There is no variableness in Him; neither a shadow of turning. He is the  same yesterday, today,  forever. Remember that "He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts".

Read and meditate on the following : 

"So—who is like me? Who holds a candle to me?" says The Holy. Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls each by name —so magnificent! so powerful!— and never overlooks a single one? Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, "God has lost track of me. He doesn't care what happens to me"? Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening? God doesn't come and go. God lasts. He's Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn't get tired out, doesn't pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out. He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind. (Isaiah 40:25-31 MSG)