Devotion for today

Evening: Psalms 77:1-2 (NIV)
1 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.
2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted.

These are desperate times but where are the desperate people of God? Seldom do we hear of God’s people saying such things as the psalmist does in our text this evening. Perhaps we have grown far too complacent in our walk with God. Perhaps we really do not want God to invade our world with his Word and ways. Perhaps we want heaven in the afterlife but we do not cherish God in this one. Perhaps we have far too many other ideas to pursue and pleasures to seek after.

How long has it been since you have spent the night as this psalmist speaks of? How long has it been since you did not allow your eyes to close in sleep because you needed to engage with the Most High?

Nights spend in prayer because God seems far away, hours spent in searching after God in desperate prayer, where are they? Have they gone the way of family altars where parents and their children learned to cherish the Word of God as they worshipped in their homes? O we need a day when we will once again pursue the God who has pursued us. Perhaps it will come on the heels of economic catastrophe or climactic changes. Or perhaps it will come as we decide to once again cherish the things of God over the things of this world.