Dear
Journal,
I had the privilege to wake up this morning to learn many beautiful
lessons from God. One is the health-giving value of outdoor life. It thought me
of the beauty of nature and how it is therapeutic and medicinal, and how it
strengthens us physically, mentally, and spiritually. The beautiful nature that
surrounds us expresses the wonderful and tender loving of our God to us. How awesome
is God.
The Lord then took me to Psalm 90 and I quickly fell in love with
this chapter of Moses’ psalm. But from the 17 verses of the 90th
chapter of psalm, verses 7-12 quickly caught my eyes:
7. For
we [the Israelites in the wilderness] are consumed by Your anger, and by Your
wrath are we troubled, overwhelmed, and frightened away.
8. Our iniquities, our secret heart and its sins [which we would so like to conceal even from ourselves], You have set in the [revealing] light of Your countenance.
9. For all our days [out here in this wilderness, says Moses] pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told [for we adults know we are doomed to die soon, without reaching Canaan].
10. The days of our years are [a]threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride [in additional years] only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
11. Who knows the power of Your anger? [Who worthily connects this brevity of life with Your recognition of sin?] And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You?
12. So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom. (AMP)
8. Our iniquities, our secret heart and its sins [which we would so like to conceal even from ourselves], You have set in the [revealing] light of Your countenance.
9. For all our days [out here in this wilderness, says Moses] pass away in Your wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told [for we adults know we are doomed to die soon, without reaching Canaan].
10. The days of our years are [a]threescore years and ten (seventy years)—or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride [in additional years] only labor and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
11. Who knows the power of Your anger? [Who worthily connects this brevity of life with Your recognition of sin?] And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You?
12. So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom. (AMP)
To
look at this, how many of the young people can detect a blessing of God or the
wrath of God?
I
would like to bring this home to our young people who read this. Young people,
do you love your parents? Do you think your parents love you? Do you think that
your parents have their best interest for you?
Let’s
do an example; let’s say that you love music, and whenever you go to a music
store, even when you were three years old, you enjoyed going to the piano
section and play with all the pianos there. Because of that interests that your
parents sees in you, they want you to succeed in it. So, they bought you a
beautiful piano so you can practice on it. And because they want you to be a
wonderful pianist, they even hired the best piano teacher.
Young
people, just through this simple example, do you see the blessings that your
parents have done to you? Yes, of course. Yet, many young people groaned and
complained, “Why do I have to spend hours and hours every day to learn piano?” “It’s
too tedious and monotonous.” Like what I have said long ago. We started to
become bored at it and started doing things that we feel, as we thought, would “Greatly
benefits” us. We started to hang out with friends who felt the same way, and
instead of pursuing after what our parents wants we pursue after what our
friends think we should do.
Now,
is it permissible for any parents to be angry at their children when this
happen? Yes, absolutely. Young people, I’m talking to you again, your parents
have worked hard, spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on the beautiful piano,
hired the best teacher in town, and you dropped the bomb on them by complaining
and murmuring of how pointless the piano lessons have become. Of course any
parents would be furious.
God
have His best interest in us. He loves us so much. He gave us the beautiful
outdoor for us to enjoy. He made the grains, fruits and vegetables for us to
eat. He provided loving parents to care, to meet our needs and to provide what’s
best for us. He even sent His only begotten Son to die for our sins, just for
our best interest. And young people, that interest is to enjoy an eternal life in
heaven with the One who loved you the most. And because of His love for us,
often time He has to show His anger to us.
Psalm
90:11 says, “Who
knows the power of Your anger? [Who worthily connects this brevity of life with
Your recognition of sin?] And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and
worshipful fear that is due You?” Can we see God’s anger and His wrath? He does
this because He first loved you and I.
Jesus repetitively exemplifies His
love for you and I as a Father who longs for His Children to return to Him.
Throughout this journey of life, God have shown wonderful blessings that He has
done in our life and He asked us to count His blessings, not to brag, but to
see the love that He had done for you. Psalm 90:12 says, “So teach us to number
our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.” May you count the love that He
has for you?
Sincerely,
Assdhy F. Lolowang
Bible
verses were taken from the Amplified Bible version.
