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my daughter crystal has a suspicious
growth that we’re trying to get some
clarity on so it’s been one thing after
another
in a concentrated period of time causing
my granddaughter to raise the question
in the words of Marvin Gaye what’s going
on so much so many tears so many
unanswered questions one thing after
another and many of you know what it is
to have one thing after another to
struggle with the pain of life’s
realities that are inescapable and if
you’ve not been here yet keep living
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because life has a way of throwing
curveballs
the unexpected sometimes you even get
hit by the pitch God’s people were
struggling in Isaiah 40 there was
struggling bad as this chapter
prophesied the Babylonian captivity and
it speaks about their struggle and they
asked in verse 27 or they say my way is
hidden from the Lord and the justice
dumi escapes the notice of my god what
they’re asking is God what’s going on
God where are you don’t you see my pain
my way is hidden from you you don’t see
what I’m dealing with because if you saw
it you would not let it happen like this
this way this long and this much the
justice do me it’s not fair this isn’t
fair
I shouldn’t be hurting like this crying
like this struggling like this
discouraged like this where are you God
and while we could all be spiritual and
pretend we never think that way there
are those times in our lives when God
seems to be conspicuously absent
unlocated Oh Joe put it this way he says
I look north and couldn’t find it
I looked east I look West I kept I kept
looking and I couldn’t find it the
absenteeism of God the sense that my way
is hidden from him he doesn’t see what I
see feel what I feel and understand what
I’m going through and while we can
intellectually know better it doesn’t
change the broken hearts the shed tears
or the enormous pain of life’s reality
these people thought that God had failed
them that if relinquished is on his
covenant promises there are those times
in life when it looks like God is
letting somebody put a rake over your
soul where you push the panic button and
you feel let down where you’re no longer
singing the gospel you’re singing the
blues
because sadness has overtaken you and
celebration is just not where your
emotions are they needed God to
intervene
in the circumstances that was causing
them pain I don’t know what your
circumstance is today probably most of
you have one or who’ve had one or you’re
headed toward one whether it’s
unfulfilled dreams desires that have not
come through pain that have not been
relinquished hurt that won’t go away
this is what they were facing where are
you God when my world is falling apart
when God speaks into their situation he
does not speak scientifically
technologically academically or
philosophically he speaks theologically
because he raises the issue in verse 28
do you not know have you not heard the
everlasting God the Lord the creator of
the ends of the earth does not become
weary and tired his understanding is
inscrutable he says when your world is
real evidence members of Oak Cliff is
falling apart this is not the time to
run from him this is the time to run
together