March 12 ~ Psalm 9:10
Everyone who honors your name can trust you, because you are faithful to all who depend on you.
Scripture taken from the Contemporary English Version © 1991,1992, 1995 by American Bible Society, Used by Permission.
If you have lived any time at all, you have probably had someone depending on you – a friend, a relative, a pet, a co-worker or boss, a child perhaps – maybe even a parent or grandparent. And because we are humans, most likely, that person has done something that was hurtful, disrespectful – or at the very least, inconsiderate – and you probably felt like, “I don’t want this person to depend on me any longer. I don’t want to ‘be there’ for him/her.”
This doesn’t make you a bad person to feel this way. Hopefully, you asked God for strength, and you “sucked it up” and went ahead being the trustworthy, dependable person for the one who seemed so ungrateful.
The next time you are ready to “throw in the towel” with someone, stop and ask yourself this… “What if God threw in the towel with me?” Because you see, we all know that we are hurtful, insulting, disrespectful, and downright inconsiderate toward God – and often. We don’t honor His name like we should. We don’t listen to Him and do what He tells us… and some of us are just flat determined to do quite the opposite! And yet, He loves us and is faithful to us. He never “throws in the towel” with us… He never gives up… God never quits on our behalf.
If God is so loving and faithful to us when we dishonor Him, how much more do you suppose He would bless us if we honored and obeyed Him? We all know that we find it much easier to do things for those who are appreciative and grateful… even if that is not our reason for serving. So what if we were appreciative and grateful toward God?
Let’s do two things: 1) let’s make a concerted effort to keep loving and serving those who are unlovely and ungrateful, because that is what God commands us to do, and 2) let’s step up our gratitude toward God, on whom we depend. He is faithful to us even when we don’t deserve His care, and we would do well to find every opportunity possible to honor Him.
©2009 Debbie Robus
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