Lame Cherry: Good People In Evil Times

As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.

There is a Psalm, number forty four, which is never focused upon, but the Holy Ghost brought this to my attention, as while I have warned you that Jeremiah was in a dungeon and would have died if not rescued in the Jerusalem meltdown, to show that good people do suffer in sinful nations Judged, the Psalm 44 has some very interesting points which a Protestant Christian must face. Sometimes we are as Job, in having done nothing wrong, and really bad things happen to us, not until the television commercial break, but for years, even as we are broken a dozen times over and scream we can not take any more.

King David is recording a people, whom God appointed him to lead, who have given God full credit for all, have gone into battle in His Name, and yet with all of that national success, they were all having major failures happen to them, and being insulted and preyed upon by other nations.

That does not seem fair, and it is not, but none of us can know the workings of God's mind. There does not seem to be a purpose sometimes, and sometimes it is Job being a good person in every way, and God points out to satan, "I let you do everything vile to an innocent man, and yet he is still Faithful to Me".

Unless we go through the emotional fires of having been made to make the right decision in not giving up, in having to trust God, all of it is just intentions, and there are not actions backing up our Faith. The extreme example was God telling Abraham to love Him, more than his son, Isaac, and to sacrifice this child to God, even though it was against everything God had taught. Abraham approached it to the last instant that God would provide an animal, even as he raised his knife to kills his own son. God had to stop him, and it proved the point, not with just words, but the action which could not be denied in the one thing that Abraham loved more than God was his son..........but Abraham showed he would OBEY God over his love for his son.

In the Psalm, he expressions in verse 9 of rejected and humbled, literally translates FAILED and INSULTED, after all this people did in expressing all their Faith that all they did was from God. That is a bitter and sour betrayal, none of us would accept or take kindly to. Yet this is what God allowed, and it was just starting.

In verse 19, the phrase 'You have crushed us' means to collapse, there is a difference, as something crushed is still there......something that collapses in military defense or Faith in God, is gone. The term jackals is instead serpent or monster in the verse, so God has allowed the innocent to have their Faith collapsed in the midst of the pit of satan, in complete alienation and darkness, as all hope is extinguished.

If you are a Protestant Christian, you as I have been carried through this Spiritual rape many times. It is a hurt that never really heals and only the Holy Ghost comforts us in these wounds. When God says A BROKEN SPIRIT AND A CONTRITE HEART, that is the reality, and you can not be broken if you have not been shattered to the pieces being shattered and you can not be contrite, truly contrite, unless you have repeatedly been humiliated and rejected when you were completely innocent.............and there is not any happy ending in this like Dickens novels in someone coming up and saying you were right, no this is followed by someone probably slapping you and calling you a son of a bitch yet.

This is the loving Father, forming you in Spirit, in the same Way that Jesus was formed as a human. When the New Testament states that Jesus knows our afflictions, He experienced the same and worse. This was not phoning it in. This was not Jesus having God's powers and turning a cow pie into pizza as He knew how good they were a thousand years later. Jesus did not have a bed, pillow or a room most days. He was persecuted and hunted to be murdered daily by the Jews. No matter what He did, it was twisted and lied about for doing good.

David wraps this up in verses 23 and 24, in uttering what Jesus did in "Why God do you forsake us forever?" None of this means that God is gone, as the meaning is God HIDES His Face or FACES from us. This is an unusual plural noun being used, as it means the Elohim, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, yet it expands in the Spiritual to all of the loving attributes of God which He Redeems, Saves, Delivers, Loves etc... each of us completely and fully to overflowing without end.
God is always there with us. There is not any abandoning us. He is there. He may conceal His Gifts from us, to assist us in the necessary Spiritual growth we all must be delivered through. God is not going to leave us as a half baked bread with soggy dough in the middle that even we would wince and recoil from. If you ever worked to bake bread, an then took it out too soon, sat down ready to eat the work of your hands, only to saw into a bread loaf with a gooey wet middle, that you have to eat around as you scowl about it all, that is what God is not going to leave you to in that worthless state. None of us likes this misery and affliction. There would be something insanely wrong with us if we liked to suffer and have our hearts broken, it is though how things are in the Spirit. None of us would want a pet or a car, that looked pretty on the outside, but ran off and left us for other people or broke down on the road. No, we want things that are proven and dependable, that are going to be there for us in the bad times without fail.

Most of us have around 70 years to go through things to get moulded by God. When you compare that to an analogy I heard as a child, that if you want to know how long eternity is, if a bird took one drop of water, out of every ocean, once every thousands years, until they were all empty........that would not even be an instant in eternity. That is why time ceases as there is no measurement for that kind of expanse. I know how shitty life is most of the time, as I'm in it. I do try and remember now that the Spirit of God reminds me, that with Christ carrying me, I can be brought through this hard toil as being here until Christ returns is not that long, and all of those horrid POS, pieces of satan, are going to be vaporized in the Lake of Fire. I'm certain of that, they will be repaid for all they are, and I can better be unburdened knowing this misery has an end, in all this suffering of satan is bound for 1000 years, and then it is forever ended.

I'm thinking of my dead brother now, as I shared with him often enough the reality of what is coming. He was always afraid and didn't want to hear. I always want to know as not knowing is worse as in knowing I can brace myself for the blow. He though said, "I don't want Jesus to come back because I want to do some more hunting".
I looked at him as TL did and was incredulous as that was beyond us in how selfish someone could be.

In the end, he chose the glory of his shit job, got vaxed instead of trusting God and is now dead. No hunting, no glory, just his record to be looked at in Judgment.

The point of this is yesterday, we were talking to a girl I was confirmed with in Church. Talking about northern lights, the planets aligning, about solar explosions, and her next expression was, "I think this is the end". I replied, that of course it is the End Times, as she was seeing the signs and knew them. TL then said about Jesus coming back, and she agreed and was most joyful in all of this misery was going to end. Nothing about going hunting or something else she worshiped in glory. This gal is very pretty and laughs a great deal, but she has not had a good life at times. Her husband beat her up, she never had a good feeling about herself in she thought shew as over weight, her mom died, her dad is a trial, her brother died, she had major problems in her young daughter had a vax baby with heart problems that had to be operated on, and people do not treat her the best. She does not have all the answers in God, but she remains Faithful with the burden of being pretty. Faithful for years when God was hiding.

There is though a connection in this that the Holy Ghost just reminded me of. In the game of Hide and Seek, we are expected to seek. God hides at times and we have to go looking, searching, calling , and screaming to find Him. He is not going to be secreted forever He desires those who worship Him in Spirit and Truth, an in that the Truth is that we know by experience that we always need God.

It is never easy to be hurt and vulnerable and I rarely am in charitable mood to thank God for clinging onto the edge by my fingernails every moment of every day, but we are being grown in Spirit, things that knocked us down before do not even slows us down by God's Grace now. We have a sure reality that in not that long of time, we are going to Jesus or Jesus is coming to us..

I remember as a little kid, looking to the year 2000 how "old" I would be. Like all of us I have blinked and that was almost 25 years ago. Time is in our lives like grass that whithers in a season and is burned up and gone. None of us is going to get any time back. That is what eternity is for to fulfill things for the Glory of God. Our time is here is all about getting to there in Christ. We are either as Protestant Christians going to be with Christ or He is coming for us.

It is not that long. It all gets better.

Psalm 44

9But You have rejected and humbled us;
You no longer go forth with our armies.
10You have made us retreat from the foe,
and those who hate us have plundered us.
11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured;
You have scattered us among the nations.
12You sell Your people for nothing;
no profit do You gain from their sale.
13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,
a mockery and derision to those around us.
14You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstockc among the peoples.
15All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame has covered my face,
16at the voice of the scorner and reviler,
because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17All this has come upon us,
though we have not forgotten You
or betrayed Your covenant.
18Our hearts have not turned back;
our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;d
You have covered us with deepest darkness.
20If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21would not God have discovered,
since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.e
23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?
Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24Why do You hide Your face
and forget our affliction and oppression?
25For our soul has sunk to the dust;
our bodies cling to the earth.
26Rise up; be our help!
Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.