“My soul is
downcast within me…Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and
breakers have swept over me.” Psalm 42:6-7
I lay in
bed and cried. My husband had no idea what to say, and I couldn’t explain what
was going on. My heart and mind struggled with accepting that God’s answer to my
cherished prayer was, “No.”
I could remain sad
and angry, or accept God’s will and move on, trusting Him.
He is
God, by the very virtue of His name, the Creator and Ruler of the universe, the
Name at the sound of which “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess.”
Only He knows why some things must be and why some things will never be. The
reasons may have to wait for heaven—a lifetime of not understanding—of
accepting and moving forward.
Verse seven
reveals the all-powerful, sovereign God, the One who is above all other powers,
the Name above all names, the One who controls the immense and raging might of
a waterfall.
Many
years ago, we stood, at a look-out point atop the Lower Falls of the
Yellowstone River. It was awesome, beautiful and terrifying at the same time.
We held tight to the hands of our children unless fascinated, they should lean
over the railing too far and be swept away.
Victorious
living requires me to reach that point where I submit myself wholly to the will
of God. I must accept what He has allowed, even if His reasons are not revealed
until eternity.
Notice
when the writer says the waves and breakers swept over him, Who controls and
owns them. The Master of the mighty waves that threaten to sweep me away and
fill me with fear and dread, is none other than the sovereign God who inspires
awe by His mastery of the waterfall’s power.
When
waves threaten to overcome… When dreams, hopes, and plans seem swept away, leaving
no hope… Look to God, who controls all things. Remember His everlasting love.
Do not fear the events which swirl outside human ability to check and contain. God
is in control.
© Copyright by Norma Gail
Thurston Holtman, October 28, 2011
About the author:
Norma
Gail is the author of the contemporary Christian romance, Land of My Dreams, winner of the 2016 Bookvana Religious Fiction
Award. A women’s Bible study leader for over 21 years, her devotionals and
poetry have appeared at ChristianDevotions.us, the Stitches Thru Time blog, and
in “The Secret Place.” She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers
and Romance Writers of America. Norma is a former RN who lives in the mountains
of New Mexico with her husband of 40 years. They have two adult children.
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