God rides across the heavens to help us (Deuteronomy 33:26-27). What a year it has been! Some of us have lost. Some of us feel beat! Some of us feel anxious. Some of us are asking questions. Some of us are still smiling. Most of us feel we need a break and wonder what the heck just happened to us in these long months of confinement. Part of the problem for us humans is that many of us live with a veiled expectation that life should be lived out in the “happy” lane. Inevitably, our lives will periodically cross over into the quadrant of hardship, and we become the casualties of calamity. This year has poured out difficult days on us and being locked away from life as we know it has left us fatigued. The common word on all our lips as we head towards the close of this year is “weariness”. We are all feeling like weary wanderers, walking the tracks of life that have progressively become threadbare after the pandemic has whipped us and left its welt marks on our beings. We are ready to fall in a heap. We need rest, solace, and a helping hand. But our God never leaves us debilitated in the pit of pain. He is a God of rescue and restoration. Our God rides across the heavens to help us.
As we cry out to God to renew us and put our lives back together, God rides across the heavens to help us. In all His majesty and power, God pulls back on the reins of difficulty, slows the pace with His presence and comfort and catches us. He slips His firm hand under our worn-out feet when we can walk no further and envelops us in His everlasting arms. As God rides across the heavens to help us, He also tramples down the enemy who seeks to camp on any circumstance of difficulty, waiting to derail us. God’s intention is to always help us and lead us to a fresh place, restoring our weary souls with the flow of His living water, as He points us north with a renewed sense of hope. God also gathers up the mess that entangles us, circles in behind it and uses it to restore us. When God rides across the heavens to help us, He takes what worked against us and turns it into something that transforms us. The pain becomes the gain.
God has ridden across the heavens to help us more times than we will ever know about. When we cry out to Him, He always rides to us. When we don’t have strength to cry out, He hears the soft whisper in our hearts that faintly calls Him, and He rides towards us. Have you called Him? He’s already riding. Can you see Him coming? He’s already riding. God will always ride across the heavens to help us.
So, friends, get your “God ride” on today.
Best days to come.
Wen