Pity and Questioning to Praise and Gratefulness

How do you react on your Pity Pot?
Or when you are Questioning Life?

Do you cry out to God?
Do you wonder how or why?
Do you have problems sleeping, Shutting your mind down?

Do you feel that God has
-Rejected You
-Taken His Unfailing Love Away From You
-That He Will Never Be Kind to You Again
-That He Has Slammed the Door on His Compassion

The enemy has taken me on this ride before and I rode shotgun. Shotgun on a Pity Pot.

As I read Psalm 77 the above questions were ones asked there.
In verse 11 the whole theme changes…
It reads
BUT THEN…..I recall all you have done O Lord.
BUT THEN … What a Turn Around!! I love this!!!
The Psalmist got off his Pity Pot of
“Where is God?”
“Why God?”
“When God?”

and REMEMBERED God’s
-Holy Ways
-Mighty Works
-Awesome Power
-Strong Arms
He remembered all that God had done.

Do you ever meditate on all the good things that God has done?
Sometimes it is hard to pry our butts off the pity pot.
I am deciding to be Grateful and Praise Him for His greatness!

“You are the God of great wonders!” -Psalm 77:14a
This is just One of my Thoughts.

I am a Christ Follower.
I believe that God sent His only Son, Jesus Christ.
That He died for OUR Sins.
That He rose from the Tomb.
That He sits at the right hand of God and Intercedes for US.
I am Blessed.

This is a Definition of Intercession-
- A Prayer to God on behalf of another person.
- Is the act of interceding (intervening or mediating) between two parties.

I have been visiting Numbers lately. Actually I have been reading it from beginning to end out loud to my husband. When we got to Numbers in our reading plan, I admit to groaning. I have read this book a few times before, Forgive me but I have a hard time not falling asleep.
Whereas it does hold some of my favorite verses ever in it….

“The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine upon you,
And be gracious to you;
The LORD lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace. -Numbers 6:24-26 (NKJ)

It also can be redundant. As I was reading though I noticed something that I really hadn’t paid much attention to before. Moses and Aaron. These two guys are like the Big Wigs in Numbers. I started to feel sorry for them. Every chapter I read pretty much had the same story in it.

The Israelites mumbled and complained about e.v.e.r.ything. Seriously EVERYTHING, No Meat. No Veggies, Only Manna (which supposedly tasted like a pastry, yum), we’d rather be slaves, blah blah blah. It was never ending. God was angry with them, tired of listening to them complain. He wanted to take care of them. But who stepped in every time…. Moses and Aaron. “They Fell FACE DOWN on the Ground” and pleaded with God for His mercy…MANY TIMES. Most of the time God would listen and offer a lesser punishment than complete annihilation. Poor Moses and Aaron…It sounds like they ate alot of dirt.

I take comfort knowing that when I mess up that Jesus is sitting there, next to God, His Father and He is saying something like….. “I know Dad. She sinned but She is Mine. I have paid for that.”