Thursday, November 19, 2020

Psalm 145:18 (Talk with God)

Psalm 145:18
The Lord is near to all who call on Him,
to all who call on Him in truth.

Hello. How are you doing this week? Has it been rough for you? Have you been enjoying yourself and your time? Is there anything new happening in your life, or do you feel you're stuck in the same old same old? Have you been feeling lonely lately; like you have no one with whom you can talk? I've been feeling that way alittle bit. I've got alot of things on my mind, but sometimes I don't feel like I can tell them to anyone. Sometimes I feel like I have no one with whom I can talk.

God knows how important talking and being together is for human beings. At the beginning of creation God looked at the first man and said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him," and so God made man a female companion with whom man could talk and share his life (Genesis 2:18). God then created the covenant of marriage, so that a man and a woman could deeply share their life together, and have children who could also spend time with them. God designed human-kind to be social beings who talk and commune with each other.

Sometimes, though, I don't want to talk with other people, or maybe I want to talk with someone about something very specific, but there is no one I know who would care about it. What do I do then?

The Bible says I can talk with God. The way people can talk with God is by praying. God promised those who believe in Him, "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know" (Jeremiah 33:3). It's great to know that when we call on God in faith God will answer. The psalmist wrote, "The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in truth" (Psalm 145:18). When we, as believers, talk with God in prayer, we are taking our words and requests directly to God's throne room. We, as believers, are in Christ, so "let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need" (Hebrew 4:16). We have this confidence that God hears us, unlike those who do not believe. One of Jesus' followers once said, "We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the Godly person who does His will" (John 9:31). It is written, "The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are attentive to their cry" (Psalm 34:15). Therefore "let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water" (Hebrews 10:22).

Talk with God, because He cares for you. He has kept count of all your tossings and turnings, put your tears in a bottle, and written all of your sorrows down in His records (Psalm 56:8). He is the God of all mercy and comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3). Go to Him, when you feel needy and alone. He says to His children, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you" (Matthew 7:7). When you talk with God, you do not have to worry about what you will say, or how you will say it. You do not have to "keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him" (Matthew 6:7-8).

When you talk with God, know that talking with God is not a one way conversation. He desires to tell you so much about Him. The word of God says that the sky and everything in it declares God's glory, and even though no sound is heard from the sky, its voice goes out to all the world (Psalm 19:1-4). The beauty and wonder of creation speaks to you on God's behalf every day and every night. God, Himself, speaks to you through the Bible. In the past God spoke to His children in many ways, but in these times He speaks to us through the preserved words of His son, Jesus Christ (Hebrews 1:1-2). Talk with God. Go to Him, and listen to what He says to you.
Pastor Justin Peters once said this Biblically sound quote:

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