9880 Forums / Theology Forum / Encouragement For The Depressed- Spurgeon on: December 03, 2005, 12:27:53 PM \
There is a real deli-ma that we are confronted with in our journey toward the celestial gates. It is when we have drifted from the refuge of the Lord and feel as though we have sinned enough to depart that we are tempted to feel as tho our praising Him is pointless. Yet it is always good to praise Him. It is always good to sing praises to Him. Circumstances should not determine our desires but rather our relationship to Jesus in these lean times are the determiner of our praising Him. There is in creation of the universe a design for us to have examples of the attributes of God for us to visualize His revelation in that creation.

On a cool night far from the illuminate light of the big cities we can look at the lights in the sky, and get a glimpse of the eternity and the understanding of who it is that is a Person of intricate details to the smallest degree in our lives. Even when we are falling we are being sustained by Him as He sustains the stars in their orbits. He upholds us with His power in our falling. Even tho we have been exiles in our circumstances where everyone has forgotten us and our friends have judged us gone forever, He is holding us from falling completely. He is bringing us to understand that nothing in this world is worth trusting in as the supreme object than Him. We praise Him in this deli-ma because His grace is more powerful than our sin. So in our fallen state He is reversing the effects in us and healing us, and closing up the wound to be forgotten forever by Him in His Son. He is renewing us and gathering us along with the other humble ones to praise Him alone. Our God made a covenant with Abraham that He would make Him a father of many nations and that His children would be as the number of stars. We are Abraham's children by spiritual birth and have the same spiritual privileges promised in that covenant. We are one of those stars being upheld in that vast heavenly light show. Yet looking up beyond the stars we are confronted with a dark mysterious show of eternity, that is a bottomless view of space of eternal dimensions. There is the display of the might and the glory of God in His holding us up by His all seeing eye and His design of our lives by His infinite understanding. Yes just as He is sustaining those heavenly lights from His eternal abode in that dark mysterious space, He is bringing us to become a more bright star of eternal illumination of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Do you feel His presence. Dont let Satan convince you that you are beyond His care. Go to the night and think of His power to uphold the universal display of heavenly lights. Sing to Him in your darkest hour. It is fitting, normal , realistic to bless Him with our lips. To God be the glory!