Psalms 73:25-26
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Truth: My failure is trumped by God's faithfulness!
The truth of the matter, we all fail. Our failures may not always be public, but never-the-less we all fail. In our walk with God we find other things to replace Him with in our lives, if only on a temporary basis. We attempt to find peace, fulfillment, and/or relief in things that are of temporal value. We ought to be able to say with writer of the above psalm, "There is nothing on earth that I desire besides you." Yet, we know that is not always, and perhaps, seldom, true. We want things more than God. We want relationships with people more than relationships with God. These false desires take us away from Him who is the fulness of all knowledge and wisdom (Colossians 2:3). That is when our heart fails us. We stumble and are afflicted and crushed. That is when we know we have the faithfulness of God. If our salvation was dependent upon our constant walk with God we would be ever lost. Yet, the strength of our heart is not the constancy of our walk, but he congruent faithfulness of God. Our portion is not the things of this world, but of Him. The failure might not be of the "front page" variety in our life, but it is a failure and only the faithfulness of God can and will cover it in His divine forgiveness. Our failure may not be of the open and public nature of adulatory or robbery, but it will be of covetousness and envy. Ego will cause more failure than any accounts of public immorality. It won't get the same press but it is of the greater failure. But, when we fail thus, He is there for us. He is our portion ... forever. That is a great truth to hold on to in the midst of the pain and suffering.
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