November 27
Psalms 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
David here utters a melancholic cry as he remembers good times of worshipping God in the congregation during religious feasts. There are times in life when God allows our enemies in the form of adversarial circumstances to overcome us and as a result, we lose many of the spiritual blessings God had so freely given us. This usually (but not always) happens as a result of our willful disobedience to Him. One may wonder, “How can we do this; how can we willfully and voluntarily sabotage ourselves out of what seems a wholesome and near perfect situation or life?”
This is the history of mankind. Adam and Eve were not content in the perfect happiness of the Garden of Eden and voluntarily chose out. The same is true of many people today. They, of their own choice, decide to leave wholesome and healthy conditions to adopt a lower lifestyle. They mostly do it because they refuse to have to yield to some ‘rules’. Like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, their happy condition was conditional to their obedience to one rule (Genesis 2:16,17). Jesus illustrated this point by saying, men loved darkness rather than light (John 3:19).
It is one thing to never have experienced wholesome, beautiful healthy living in the Spirit of God, but oh, what a dreadful predicament it is to have freely received it, only to later lose it through sin or personal sabotage.
It has been said that we never appreciate what we have until we lose it.
Lord, help us to be thankful; to count our blessings and realize how good we have it--to know that even our unansered prayers are fopr our benefit and eventual happiness.
Psalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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