Recently a reader sent the following treatise written by Reverend Billy Graham as a reminder for me in these difficult times that God is still on the throne. I believe that the last two posts I’ve made were me venting and the Holy Spirit rebuked me and I’m thankful for my friend sending me this.
Deflect Despair
By Billy Graham • May 27
There is a story about Martin Luther going through a period of discouragement and depression. For days his long face graced the family table and dampened the family’s home life. One day his wife came to the breakfast table all dressed in black, as if she were going to a funeral service. When Martin asked her who had died, she replied, “Martin, the way you’ve been behaving lately, I thought God had died, so I came prepared to attend His funeral.”
Her gentle but effective rebuke drove straight to Luther’s heart, and as a result the great Reformer resolved never again to allow worldly care, resentment, depression, discouragement, or frustration to defeat him. By God’s grace, he vowed, he would submit his life to the Savior and reflect His grace in a spirit of rejoicing, whatever came.
When was the last time you praised God in the midst of despair? Don’t wait until you “feel like it,” or you’ll never do it. Do it, and then you’ll feel like it!
There is one certainty regarding every trial you will ever face: God is still in control. You haven’t encountered the one problem He can’t fix. Seas still part and mountains still crumble at His command.
Hmmm . . . Well he sure hit the head if the nail which pierced my heart. I have decided to follow suite.
Revelation 5:13
“Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, singing: ‘To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, forever and ever!’ “