"You Are Not Alone"

"Thou sellest Thy people for nought, and dost not increase Thy wealth by their price." (Psalms 44:12) It has been said that because "God owns the cattle on a thousand hills" (Psalms 50:10), then He can supply all of our needs, almost insisting that they need not worry about anything that has got to do with needs; nice idea, put bad plan, because He owns you also. What that means, as far as this verse is concerned, is that He not only owns you and I, but He owns everything and everyone; as Paul so eloquently stated, "For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen." (Romans 11:36) Yet, there is one thing that we forget about in almost every trial that hits us off guard, which is, God is on the throne! What the heck do we think complaining does in the midst of a trial? It surely will not help our testimony of God's love and mercy, nor will it give anyone a clue what trusting God is meant to be, or how it is meant to look like. One thing is for sure, when we fall apart, neither we or God come out looking any richer from it. God has promised us that He will supply all of our needs (Philippians 4:19), but the problem is, we seldom really know what we need, only what we want. When God had the heathen nations take Israel captive, that did not give Him any glory, and it surely did not make Israel look like they were being well taken care of by God; yet God's love for His people goes far beyond their comfort in this world, because this world is not what it's all about, it's about eternity in heaven. You might have experienced getting disciplined as a child, and prior to your spanking, your father says, This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you; well, it takes on that kind of a picture, but in God's case, He knows the result that will be accomplished; our earthly father could only hope for a change, but our Heavenly Father, He already knows the end result... "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should fall short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world." (Hebrews 4:1-3)