Daily Devotion

June 12, 2006

Psalms 27:10 When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

We live in a generation where so many are “forsaken” by their mother and/or father.  They are forsaken because their conception was due to the heat of a thoughtless moment of passion, to a marriage built on the shaky foundation of emotions, to a lack of commitment to make this marriage work, or even to the cares of life and lust of the eye, that make parents devote more time to their career or financial advancement than to their children.  But also, they are at times forsaken due to sickness, death, accidents, religious bigotry and persecution.

It is a sad and lonely thing to grow up in the world with the knowledge that those who are called your parents, who are meant to be your trainers and mentors, do not have enough virtue to keep the roof of your family together, do not have enough roots in their own lives to keep the foundation of your life strong and sound.    This builds a cynical negative precedent in your life about love, sexual relationships, marriage, as well as a shaky sense of family.  Where do you turn to then?  Where do you find your security, your emotional stability?

My friend, you can rest assured.  The physical roots of your life may be as shaky as a reed in a stormy wind; the bedrock of your existence may be like the rolling sand of a desert storm; the foundation of your house may resemble mud washed away by a furious river. Know that there is tree that hold its ground stronger than the mighty oak; that there is rock surer than any bedrock, on which you can build your house.  When you feel like there is no one on whom to rest your weary, discouraged and forsaken soul, come to Jesus, the sure Foundation laid on the bedrock of the earth (Luk 6:48), the infallible anchor of the soul (Heb 6:18-20), and find refuge from the beatings of the stormy weather, in the place where your heart can rest at peace, anchored in the safe harbor of His love.

Luke 6:48  He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.

Hebrews 6:18-20  That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:  (19)  Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;  (20)  Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.

Patrick Lumbroso
For past issues of the daily devotion go to my blog at:
http://hearthstoneministries.blogspot.com/