If It Had Not Been The Lord
One of my favourite songs is a song by Israel Houghton titled “Still Standing”. The first verse to this song is one that I sing all the time as it carries so much weight:
“You gave me courage to believe that all your goodness I will see
And if it had not been for You standing on my side where would I be“
I took time out with my family to reflect on 2009, and we could not but marvel at how God moved so mightily in our lives. Really and truly, if it had not been for God, where would we be? For all the battles, if it had not been for the Lord. For all the hazards we faced, if it had not been for the Lord. For all the hurt and pain, if it had not been for the Lord. For all the delays and disappointments, if it had not been for the Lord. For the time of waiting, waiting, and waiting, if it had not been for the Lord. 
For those lessons in patience, if it had not been for the Lord. For all that we went through and all that we did not go through, if it had not been for the Lord, where would we be?
Again and again, I am reminded how my life would have no meaning, whatsoever, without Him and how I am totally and completely dependent on Him. If it had not been for Him, I cannot bear to think how my life would be. It was not always rosy, don’t get me wrong, but those trying times were bearable because of Him. I am indebted to a God Who never gives up on us despite all the debts we owe Him, a God Who craves a relationship with mankind even with the way we treat Him and all that concerns Him, a God Who is not man that He should lie, and Who does exactly what He says He will do!
My family and I read Psalm 124, which is where the title of this piece was taken:
1 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,”
Let Israel now say—
2 “If it had not been the LORD who was on our side,
When men rose up against us,
3 Then they would have swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
4 Then the waters would have overwhelmed us,
The stream would have gone over our soul;
5 Then the swollen waters
Would have gone over our soul.”
6 Blessed be the LORD,
Who has not given us as prey to their teeth.
7 Our soul has escaped as a bird from the snare of the fowlers;
The snare is broken, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD,
Who made heaven and earth.
He’s an awesome God, and an absolute wonder. The only One who amazes me every single day and I know I ain’t even seen nothing yet.
2010 is here! What are you going to do with it? What are you going to do with God? What are you going to let Him do with you? How much of yourself are you going to give to Him? Where are you going to place Him? Where is He going to place you? What are you going to do with that which He has entrusted to you?
If you haven’t done it yet, GET WITH THE PROGRAMME! God is real, Jesus is real…best believe that!
Happy New Year!
Word of the day…
Lamentations 3v22 – Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
God be praised. I concore that He is awesome and I am nothing without him