WITHIN GOD'S EARSHOT

January 6

WITHIN GOD’S ‘EARSHOT’

Psalms 119:8 I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.

During an interview regarding the 9-11 tragedy, Jane Clayson, host of Early Show, asked Anne Graham Billy Graham's daughter, "How could God let something like this happen?" Anne Graham proceeded to give an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe that God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand that He leave us alone?"

In the Word above, King David acknowledges the conditional elements of getting answers to prayers, of not being forsaken by God. This old time warrior who saw many battlefield dangers often had his life on the line at the sole mercy of God. He knew that one cannot benefits of God’s sheltering hands of protections while at the same time living far away from Him. David knew that we cannot expect God to honor His promises of protection in our lives if we live in disobedience to the loving guidance He set before us.

Oh how like children do, we like to run far from His range so we can claim that we don’t hear Him. He won’t shout. He won’t run after us. It is our responsibility to stay near and close and not like Peter, hours before the cruscifixion, follow afar off (Matthew 26:58). In our daily walk, do we stay within God’s ‘earshot’ of obedience and of the keeping of His statutes?

Psalms 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.