David the
famous Bible psalmist argues in the 40th psalm of his Book, “I
waited patiently upon the Lord, He heard my voice and my cry, He pulled me out
of the quicksand, He put a new song of praise in my mouth and set me up on
secure ground. “Have you ever found your life at a palace when you are sinking
deep into a lifestyle that is so dreadful and while you try to pull yourself
out of this lifestyle, the more it seemingly takes you in, You are trying to
rise –up above your threat but the more the threat rises up above you to the
extent that your effort is cut off and frozen.
Sometimes
you can try screaming out for help, but even the very prospect of screaming out
for help is discouraged at first thought because the only help you can get out
of your throat-scream won’t help your situation that much. In the face of
life’s adversity every one need help but not everyone gets help. Everyone does
not get help because them who would have helped simply do not know how to help you.
They do not
know how to help you because the adversity that faces your life is too complex
for people to understand why in the world are you that gifted of God, skilled
and talented but yet still you struggle far below the people whose gifting,
skill set and talent does not come into near comparison to yours.
Their
contribution does not match up with your contribution in value and even in worth
but yet still they keep on doing better than you are doing and then you keep on
asking yourself the question. How can life be so unfair and ungrateful …you
keep on wondering in utter disbelief of yourself. But soon or later you are
going to be doing better than you have ever imagined, you are going to be doing
better than everyone who has been jeering you when you were trying to improve
your situation.
They jeered at you because they thought your situation will
never be able to change.
They jeered
at you when they should have applauded you for being able to muster some little
strength while even at your weakest point in life. In order to make a
difference, Nobody should have blamed you for not trying to make a difference
because you were so weak to even try , but even when your muscles were weak you
still had enough spiritual sense to fight your situation because you understood
that you are never going to die and end up in the situation that you are in
right now.
Nobody was there to rub their hands on your
shoulders neither a pat on your back.. While in the middle of your most trying
moment in life: but give praise to God Almighty for his word-because it was his
word which stood with you and besides you while you were going through that
dreadful trial.
Everybody
said you never going to make it, they said no help was going to come your way
because you were far cut-off. They said you were never going to survive and
come out to tell the story of your salvation. They said that you had been dealt
a blow by the misfortunes of this world, they said all that they said in order
to break your heart and your spirit and to also cut you off from the desires of
your heart and the hope you have in God. However despite all that they said,
the word of God Almighty decreed otherwise-the word said you were going to win.
The word
said you were going to survive in remarkably victorious, Honorable, and
Gloriously way .The word said, ‘this is not the end of your story but rather
the beginning of it .And your story shall not just be a common story that is
read with excitement today and treated like a fickle beast tomorrow, but the
story of your life which begins immediately after the good Lord your God has
pulled you out of the quick-sand and after you have waited upon Him patiently
shall be an epic story.
Waiting patiently simply means to hold-up for something
that you badly need and yet still manage to be free of anxiety, stress, and
desperation. It’s one of the most difficult things to achieve most especially
if you find out that your life is becoming worse by the passing of each day as
you wait for that much needed help….. What is there to do when I have waited
patiently upon the Lord’s help to pull me out of a situation that is seemingly
overtaking me every day all the more, and it looks like no help is coming?.
The key to avoid
panic is by holding unto the word of God because whether you see it or not,
hear it or not, the word of God is in it with you. The word of God keeps you
afloat until the appointed day for God to pull you out of the quicksand of your
life. Believe in the word of God and you will come out of it because it’s the word
that pulls you out of it. Wait and panic not because you will soon be out of
the quicksand-that situation that has been sinking you in