Have you ever awaken in the morning feeling lonely, sad, or empty? Thinking how can I feel this way I'm not even officially awake yet, let alone begun my day. Isn't it true that loneliness can cling to your heart like a wet sheet on a cold night?
What if some of these feelings we experience from time to time are used by God to bring us to a place of desperate dependence upon Him. He may allow us to feel the emptiness in trusting in or living for anything or anyone more than He.
It's times like these that we are often tempted to depend upon survival strategies that we have invented throughout our lives in order to make the pain go away and our lives better. Soon we realize that these strategies have a short shelve life, and the promises they made to us were in vain and worthless.
If you can relate to these feelings at, be encouraged, because I have great news for you. God offers us to come boldly into His throne room of GRACE to find help in our time of need. There are several encouraging thoughts from this verse that I hope will bless you.
First Father says, it's a throne of grace, not a throne room of perfection, rules or laws to uphold. Then He says, You will find a gracious God waiting for you. He also says that He wants you to come be with Him. Why? Because He loves you so very much. He says, "I'm safe!" Notice His invitation is to come boldly. The idea here is that of one walking into a room feeling deeply loved, completely forgiven, fully pleasing, totally accepted, and absolutely complete in Christ. One who actually belongs there with the living God.
Then He says, when you get there you will find mercy, and grace to help you, not to hurt you, in your time of need. Grace is getting what we don't deserve. Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. That my friend is a safe place to be. In the very presence of a loving, gentle, gracious and merciful Father.
Would you go to Him today? He's waiting for you. He longs to be merciful and gracious to you.
