“Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest.” Psalm 22:2Crossing over the Colorado mountains begin on the plains. If you had only, ever, seen rolling hills, the Rockies would seem close, even though they are hundreds of miles away. It isn’t until you reach them and begin to grasp their enormity that you can appreciate the size and distance.
We come to Jesus with a promised personal relationship with God. He loves us and wants to be our ABBA, daddy, and friend. Our experience with close relationships makes us believe that there is a corollary between our earthly relationships and our new relationship with God. He loves us, gives us good gifts, not fish or stones, he is ever present, and we are given assurance through the working of His Spirit and ours that we are his children. Then it happens.
Pain, suffering, difficulties, and sin hit us like a brick wall and we cry out to God in our desperation and there is silence. We cry out again, and The Silence persists. Our Jobian friends chastise us, conjole us, encourage us, and yet the voice of God remains silent, and we find no rest. “Why are you so far from me?”
Like the Rockies, God never moves. He is the same today as the day we began to follow Jesus. The problem is our perception. His attributes of Father are the same, but there is something uniquely different about the application of those attributes, and the enormity (holiness) of God keeps us from understanding it. Yet, he does not leave us alone.
So, as we move away from the hot plains, a cool breeze sweeps down from he mountain, refreshing the weary traveler and promising something better. Even then it’s far beyond what you can imagine. I’m just saying...
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