10/23/2025
Trust in Affliction...
Some of us seek “mountain top” experiences of God, but more often than not we learn “down in the valley,” where the daily cares of life encroach upon our ideals and visions. Yet it is precisely there, in the "desert of the everyday," in the “testing of the tedious,” in the "hazards of hopelessness," that we are enabled to elevate our consciousness to realize that God is "ezra ve’tzarot nimtza me’od" (עֶזְרָה בְצָרוֹת נִמְצָא מְאד) - a “very present help in our troubles” (Psalm 46:1).
Amen, God is aware of our frustration, our lowliness, our fear, our suffering... When God delivered his people by the miracle of splitting the sea (קריעת ים סוף), he closed off any way of escape apart from his direct intervention. The Egyptian army was behind them, the mountains hemmed them in, and the vast horizon of the sea loomed before their way. The only way of deliverance was from above, in the midst of our struggle, by God’s own hand. Trust in God’s healing and deliverance is the first step... The LORD is the Rock and all his ways are perfect (Deut. 32:4), and this must be affirmed especially if we cannot fathom the testing of our present circumstances...
[ Hebrew for Christians ]
Psalm 46:1-2 Hebrew reading:
https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm46-1-2-jjp.mp3
Hebrew page pdf:
https://hebrew4christians.com/Blessings/Blessing_Cards/psalm46-1-2-lesson.pdf
