Be Assured,He is there!

[CelticPride4ME]

I would like to tell you all how wonderful our magnificent God really is. An unbelievable event happened to me back in April at a daily bible study at work I was attending, my friend read this passage that really moved me deeply.

It was 1PETER~ 3:12
FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE
ON THE RIGHTIOUS AND HIS EARS
ARE ATTENTIVE TO THEIR CRY

I was thinking, perhaps God does not hear my cry because I am by no means righteous! I had fallen so far so fast from where my relationship once was with our Father.The passage moved me so deeply that I shared it with my wife and mother in Law. It was constantly on my mind through out the night and into the next day. I was so sad wondering if He hears my cry. So much so that I wrote in my prayer journal:

" Father please show me that I am inline with your will. I am so foolish and unwise. I cannot see your hand in my life. Shout to me my God! I cannot recognize your suddle ways." I wrote this in tears and pain. I waited and looked for Him to no avail all the next day at work. I was severely depressed and felt alone and abandoned when I got home. I decided to go to my room and turn on my computer and check in on a Christian Forum that I joined. I then noticed a private message in my PM box from a person in Israel named AllForJesus.It was a new guestbook entry. Upon opening it I almost fell out of my chair...It read

THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE ON THE RIGHTEOUS AND HIS EARS ARE ATTENTIVE TO THEIR CRY~PSALM 35:15

How in the world!!! The very passage I was agonizing over was in my PM box sent to me by the first friend I made on that site!!! I instantly was overcome with peace and joy knowing that my Father was indeed hearing my cries despite me lacking my own righteousness, and being a struggling addict/alcoholic, He hears me because I have accepted Christ's righteousness in place of my own. For I am but a fool and unwise, He is all there is good in me and yet He took the time to touch me that day. How amazing is His Grace? I went from tears of depression to tears of joy.
This must be the 8th or 9th time this sort of thing has happened to me. Through all I have been through, My wife having cancer, us losing our home, alchoholism, pain pill addition, depression and anxiety. He has ALWAYS showed Himself in such unbelievable ways so that I would know without a doubt He is there. These little special events are events in which I can look back on and know without a doubt that He is who He says He is, and He is there! Though these events carry no apologetic value, they are events that have cemented my faith in such a way that nothing can separate me from the Love of Christ. They are my moments that no one can devalue or take away no matter what storm I am enduring. I am trying to get back to that place of peace I once walked with. And there is no doubt...I will.

Carried by nail-pierced Hands
~Tommy

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Originally Posted by CelticPride4ME

He hears me because I have accepted Christ's righteousness in place of my own.

Amen

Of my own I am nothing. With the atonement afforded all who accept the works of Christ's love given from the cross, we can be seen as Righteous in God's sight.

[cmc]

Welcome to SR!
Thank you so much, what you have shared is very meaningful to me today.
God bless you, and I hope you will continue to be a part of this forum.

[bluenena]

Just today I was going through the same thing. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks be to JESUS.