For With The Lord There Is Unfailing Love

October 29, 2014

For With The Lord There Is Unfailing Love

Hope deferred makes the heart sick,

but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.

Proverbs 13:12

People often talk about being “burned-out.” It has become a bit of a cliché and almost trite to say it. However, burn-out is one of the most tragic, and at times deadliest, fruits of our society. Burn-out is more than being tired and needing a vacation, or a change of pace. Burn-out occurs when you realize that what you had hoped for in life is not going to be realized. Have you ever been to see Greyhound racing or their commercials on TV? A fake rabbit is attached to the rail of the track and always travels at a faster pace than the dogs can run. Some of the dogs eventually realize they will never catch the rabbit and just give up; they stop racing. That’s burn-out. King Solomon’s greatest understatement is “Hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Hope deferred, hope lost, can kill. A person experiencing burn-out may not be dead, but their life feels dead to them.

Some people may seem to have great inward strength, great tenacity, as they seem to play the games of life endlessly. On the outside, it may appear they are juggling all the balls of life well, and keeping them all in the air. The reality is an inward weariness and boredom as their life feels like drudgery. Our innate appetite to be loved, accepted and valued is insatiable. It never, ever goes away. Even when people become aware, like the Greyhound, that they are not going to catch the rabbit, the aching hunger to be loved, accepted and valued remains. There is but one, and only one cure for a heart sick because of deferred hope: Jesus.

   “hope in the Lord;

    for with the Lord there is unfailing love.

    His redemption overflows.”

                                                            Psalm 130:7

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com. The BLOG is also available on Amazon Kindle, by subscription.

Publications by Alex M. Knight:

·        Seeking the Life in Christ, Meditations on the New Testament and Psalms has been published and is now available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle.

·        The second edition of  First Think – Then Pray is available on Amazon Kindle.

·        Meditations on The Story of My Life as told by Jesus Christ has been released as an e-book on Amazon Kindle.

Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2007. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.