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Cobwebs of doubt
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Because of circumstances beyond my control, I am temporarily cut off from the letters of a friend, someone I am accustomed to hearing from several times a week. The effect has surprised me — a kind of withering of my soul, a creeping doubt about his affections. It’s silly and groundless because I have copious reasons for assurance. But there is something about having no word from him daily that is vaguely unsettling.
This makes me appreciate the kindness and wisdom of God in leaving us his Word. Relationship is relationship. It is true with God as with my flesh and blood friend that when I am bereft, for whatever reason, of hearing from Him for a stretch of days, the cobwebs of doubt start to gather. It is insidious, and happens even as I am at first vainly imagining that the deprivation makes little difference to me.
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Thank you for warning me against the cobwebs of doubt.
And for reminding me how to get rid of them.
“I have no good beyond Thee. As for the saints that are in the earth, they are the excellent in whom is all my delight.”
Andree…. When we want something more than God he has a tendency to take it away from us no matter how much we fight it.
Me … I realized that I wanted a friend much more than God. Did I realize that up front?…. no …not even when someone warned me about it… I had to go through the school of hard knocks to learn it.
Why do we always have to learn the hard way?
Me … I realized that I wanted a friend much more than God.
Well, next time you need an emergency babysitter, or your car breaks down and you need a lift, why don’t you ask God to do it?
NT - Good idea! Every time I’ve been in great need, God has provided what I needed. Even providing the help of other people.