Where can God be found?

G. Pauraj

Introduction

Finding God is a difficult task for many people in this world; the haughty heart and the simple mind prevent the people to find the place where God dwells. Since the world came into existence people of bright minds don’t bother to believe God, because they try to find God through their scientific observations and twisted logic of creation.

The futile Thought

The renowned physicist, British Stephen Hawking in his book “The Grand Design” argues that God did not create the Universe and the Big Bang theory made it happened for all things to exist. There are many like Stephen who deliberately denies God’s existence. Russian astronaut Valery Bykovsky told newsmen in 1963 that no Soviet cosmonaut believed in God and none of them had seen anything to change their minds during their space flights. Rather than being dazzled by the marvels of the Universe and acknowledging God as the great Creator, the minds of human beings are filled with the thoughts of atheism. Paul’s words form a sad commentary on the transition that has transpired: For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools (Romans 1:20-22, emp. added).

Longing for Signs and Wisdom

During the time of Apostle Paul the Jews on one hand tried to find God and His salvation through signs and wonders the Greeks on the other hand tried to find God and His salvation through knowledge. Apostle Paul replied to them God and His salvation can’t be found anywhere except on the Cross of Calvary where Atonement for our sins was performed once for all by Jesus the Son of God for all. It is a clear proof that no human being can find God through his or her intellectual power or inventions. God and His salvation can be found only when we humble ourselves before His cross where He emptied Himself for our sake that our souls may be filled with His salvation and with His heavenly riches.

God can be found in the believing Heart

The wise men in the Bible tried to find Jesus in the King’s palace but they couldn’t find the Savior in the palace. They found the Savior in the manger likewise today many in this world try to find Jesus in a wrong place. Word of God says “The Kingdom of God is in you” yes God establishes His kingdom in us in our heart. Or on other words God establishes His kingdom in the believing heart.

"Tomorrow morning I'll open up your heart" the surgeon said to the 8 year-old-boy. "You'll find Jesus there," the boy said. The surgeon continued, "I'll open your heart and check the damage." "You'll find Jesus there," the boy said. "When I see the damage, I will suture you back up and then think about the next step," said the surgeon. "You will find Jesus in my heart because my Sunday school teacher told me so. She said it says so in the Bible. Besides that, our Sunday school songs say He lives there," said the boy. The surgery took place the next day. After the surgery the surgeon began to make notes of what he found. In his mind there was no hope and no cure. The little boy would die within a matter of months. The thought began to get to the doctor and all of a sudden the doctor shouted to God, "Why did you do this to the boy? Why can't he live a normal life?" God spoke to the surgeon's heart and said, "The boy is a part of my flock and will always be a part of my flock. When he is with me there will be no more suffering and pain. He will have comfort and peace. One day his parents as well as you will join him and my flock will continue to grow." The next day the surgeon went to the boy's room and sat down with the parents beside the bed.  In a moment or two, the boy opened his eyes and asked very quietly, "What did you find in my heart?" With tears flowing down his cheeks, the surgeon said, "I found Jesus there."

God can be found in the poor spirit

In Matthew 5:3 we "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” When confess before God that we are destitute, without resource, weak and powerless and spiritually bankrupt. Then we invite God to reveal His salvation and to bless us with spiritual and physical blessings. Our being poor in spirit is the recognition of our spiritual need that causes us to cry out to God for what He can and will supply. This same recognition also motivates us to think about God from the proper perspective, causing us to give Him praise and thanksgiving. It forces us to see Him for what He is and what He has and makes us long to be the same, just as the financially poor see and desire to be like the rich. Humbling ourselves before God forces us to evaluate ourselves honestly against God. He is the exemplar of every good characteristic, the possessor of intelligence, wisdom, and power of such capacity that He can produce us and every other good and beautiful thing needed for a wonderful, abundant life.

He can be found on the Cross

The Centurion under the cross found the Savior and openly confessed “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39). This Centurion had presided over many crucifixions. But no other man had died with “a shout of victory.” The Centurion was convinced. Christ’s enemies had been wrong! He himself had been wrong! Looking up at the dead body of Jesus on the Cross, he said, “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39). Tradition tells us that this centurion’s name was Longinus, who continued to follow Jesus in faith and that he even died a martyr. If that story is true, then one day we’ll get to meet him. That’s because the Son of God bled and died to pay for the sins of the world.

We will find Him if only we come under His cross, but drawing nearer to cross cost a lot you need to give up your pride, status and you need to realize who you are and you need to confess who He is. The centurion did the same under the cross he realized who he was and confessed who He was. Are you ready give up your pride, ego and your status in order to find the Savior and to receive your Salvation in Him.  Through faith in him all sinners receive forgiveness, the freedom to live beyond the chains of sin, death, and the devil, and, ultimately, a fully furnished, eternal home in heaven.

God’s great plan of salvation

Rev. Stanley Barnes

“What must I do to be saved?” It was a prison officer who first asked this great question some two thousand years ago. Terrified by an earthquake and the apparent escape of all his prisoners, the jailer in Philippi was on the point of suicide. Then he heard the assuring voice of the apostle Paul, his most heavily guarded prisoner: “Do thyself no harm: for we are all here” (Acts 16:28). Shaken to the core, the jailer “called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:29–30). The answer he received went to the heart of his soul’s need and set before him God’s simple way of salvation: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

The experience of the earthquake opened the jailer’s eyes to see his personal need of salvation. Very often God uses such circumstances to speak to our hearts and to awaken us to the realization that we need to be saved. It has been often said, “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” But it is also true that man’s extremity is man’s opportunity.

Perhaps your life has been shaken by such earthquake experiences as bereavement, sickness, and tragedy. Through these the Lord has been knocking at your heart’s door to bring you to the awareness of your need to be saved. The Philippian jailer had to be brought to the point where the foundations of his life, like those of the prison he guarded, were shaken by God. That is what it took to bring him to the place where he became anxious and urgently cried, “What must I do to be saved?”

Paul and Silas had only one message for the jailer: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” They instructed him to believe on the Savior, not just about Him. They did not tell him to be baptized or to partake of the sacraments. They did not speak to him about church membership or good works. They would deal with these things in their proper place and at the proper time. This man was seeking salvation and the answer Paul and Silas gave was clear and direct: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.”

A minister was trying to lead an elderly Scottish woman to Christ. Try as he might, he could not make her see the meaning of believing. Immediately on leaving her house he had to cross a rickety bridge. When he tentatively touched it with his foot the woman called out, “Can ye nae lippen to the bridge?”—which, translated into plain English, means, “Can’t you put your full weight on the bridge?” The minister had just the expression he needed to show the woman the meaning of believing. He at once said to her, “Can ye nae lippen to Jesus? Can’t you cast your full weight upon Him? Can’t you trust Him? Can’t you commit yourself to Him?” The woman grasped the simple meaning of believing. She trusted the Lord Jesus, and her life was changed.

In the person of His dear Son, God has done all that needs to be done to save sinners. At Calvary Christ completed the work of purchasing redemption. He stood as the sinner’s substitute and bore the wrath of God against our sin. He has made a full atonement and has risen from the dead, almighty to save all who come to God by Him (Hebrews 7:25). His salvation is free to all who “repent and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15). “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

The jailer believed and in that moment he became a new man in Christ. His life was transformed. His first act was to wash and tend the wounds of the prisoners, whom he had cruelly mistreated and who had repaid him by telling him God’s great plan of salvation. That is what the gospel does. It makes crooked people straight, drunken people sober, and dishonest people honest.

When D. L. Moody, the famous American evangelist, was holding meetings in St. Louis in 1880, the Globe-Democrat announced that it would publish daily reports of his sermons. One night Moody preached on the conversion of the Philippian jailer, and the next morning the paper came out with the sensational headline, “How the Jailer Was Caught!” A copy of the paper fell into the hands of Valentine Burke, a notorious prisoner awaiting trial in the city jail. Burke thought he had once passed through a town called Philippi in Illinois and so was anxious to read of the fate of its jailer. When he realized that the Globe Democrat was reporting what had happened in ancient Macedonia, he was disgusted. But he could not shake off the text, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” God used it to convict him, and there in his cell, at midnight, he prayed for the first time in his life. The following Sunday he spoke with Christians who held services in the jail and was led into the light of the gospel. Burke was a changed man, and when he came to trial, the case against him was not pressed and he was released on a legal technicality.

Later he became a sheriff’s deputy, and when the sheriff turned over to him his official photograph from the rogues’ gallery, Burke compared it with a recent one: “Notice the difference in the enclosed pictures. See what our holy religion can do for the chief of sinners” On the back of the old photograph he inscribed Psalm 113:7-8: “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; that he may set him with the princes, even with the princes of his people.” “What must I do to be saved?” If you are asking that question, the answer is the same for you as it was for the Philippian jailer and for Valentine Burke “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

David Brainerd the sold out Soul for the Task

David Brainerd (1718-1747) was a missionary to the American Indians in New York, New Jersey, and Eastern Pennsylvania. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-nine. Brainerd began his ministry with the Indians in April, 1743, at Kannameek, New York, and then ministered in Cross week sung and Cranberry (near Newark), New Jersey. These were the areas of his greatest successes.

His Diary and Journals is a brim with ministries and miracles that were akin to the Acts of the Apostles. The Life and Diary of David Brainerd ought to be read — and read often — by God's people. It will do something for you spiritually. You will be convicted, challenged, changed, and charged. It has had life-transforming effect upon many, motivating them to become missionaries, evangelists, preachers, people of prayer and power with God.

Brainerd's first journey to the Forks of the Delaware to reach that ferocious tribe resulted in a miracle of God that preserved his life and revered him among the Indians as a "Prophet of God." Encamped at the outskirts of the Indian settlement, Brainerd planned to enter the Indian community the next morning to preach to them the Gospel of Christ. Unknown to him, his every move was being watched by warriors who had been sent out to kill him.

But when the braves drew closer to Brainerd's tent, they saw the paleface on his knees. And as he prayed, suddenly a rattlesnake slipped to his side, lifted up its ugly head to strike, flicked its forked tongue almost in his face, and then without any apparent reason, glided swiftly away into the brushwood. "The Great Spirit is with the paleface!" the Indians said; and thus they accorded him a prophet's welcome. That incident in Brainerd's ministry illustrates more than the many Divine interventions of God in his life it also illustrates the importance and intensity of prayer in Brainerd's life.

Brainerd died in 1747 in the home of Jonathan Edwards. His ministry to the Indians was contemporary with Wesley, Whitefield and Edwards as they ministered to the English-speaking people during the period called in English and American history, the "Great Awakening." Brainerd's centuries-spanning influence for revival is positive proof God can and will use any vessel, no matter how fragile and frail, if it is only sold out to souls and the Savior!

The Inspiring Quotes of David Brainerd

1. "It is impossible for any rational creature to be happy without acting all for God. God Himself could not make him happy any other way... There is nothing in the world worth living for but doing good and finishing God's work, doing the work that Christ did. I see nothing else in the world that can yield any satisfaction besides living to God, pleasing Him, and doing his whole will."
2. "My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to all its allurements. My soul desires to feel itself more of a pilgrim and a stranger here below, that nothing may divert me from pressing through the lonely desert, till I arrive at my Father's house."
3. "All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."

 Dear friends in Christ like David Brainerd commit your life into His mighty hands He will glorify His name through you He will also make channel of blessing to many. God Bless you

With Regards

G. Paulraj

Wait on the Lord

G. Paulraj

Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. Psalm 37:34

Introduction

This psalm tells   what the righteous man’s response should be toward evildoers. It also tells how God regards the wicked. He sees and knows what they are doing. Justice will come upon all in due time.

Wait on the Lord is the central theme of Psalm 37 the Psalmist in Vs: 7 say “Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” Here David encourages God’s people to "be silent to Jehovah," is that of waiting in silent patience or confidence for His interposition; or, in other words, of leaving the whole matter with him without being anxious as to the result. (Barnes' Commentary). Some times in our Christian life God may seem to delay long or the adverse situation may make us to think that God completely ignores our petition and unwilling to step in at the time of our trouble. We are not to be anxious and troubled. Sometimes God delays to rescue us from our troubles in order to discipline us and to make us to be more perfect and patience that we may reflect Him in all through our lives. In short this verse tells us that God will surely come to rescue us from all our troubles. The most important thing here to be noticed is whether sooner or later must be left to Him; and that our character will be FINALLY safe in His hands.

In Vs: 24 David testifies God’s protection and providence toward righteous and in Vs: 34 David encourages others to have the same trust in the Lord. Sufferings that we face in our life not only motivate us to trust in the Lord but also make us to tell others to put their trust in the Lord. Matthew Henry writes in this way “we must wait on the Lord, attend the motions of his providence, carefully observe them, and conscientiously accommodate ourselves to them.” He further writes “If we make conscience of keeping God's way, we may with cheerfulness wait on him and commit to him our way; and we shall find him a good Master both to his working servants and to his waiting servants.”

However to put our trust in the Lord and to wait for His deliverance at the time of our trouble may seems to be a huge task. It may seem to be an unattainable task because we are impatient grudging and complain against God without knowing God’s very purpose, God’s protection and His presence behind our every suffering. Let us learn what it means to wait on the lord. I hope that this would help all my readers/listeners to place their trust in the Lord.

I. Wait on the Lord is to keep His words

This is the true mode of waiting on God which the Scripture recommends; keeping God's way-using all his ordinances, and living in the spirit of obedience. Do we keep His words; Christian life never promises trouble free life but it promises God’s protection at the time of your trouble if only you keep His words and apply all of His ordinance in your life. You will not moved when sufferings hit you like a storm; you will not drowned when afflictions surround you like a flood if only you keep His words and apply all His ordinance in your life.  

II. Waiting on the Lord is to wait for His time to come

When we wait for God’s time to come we are sure to have the further blessings of which we are in pursuit. To wait for God’s time to come implies the extension of a right line from one point to another. The first point is the human heart; the line is its intense desire; and the last point is GOD, to whom this heart extends this straight line of earnest desire to be filled with the fullness of the blessing of the Gospel of peace. God will rescue us on His time God’s time is neither earlier nor late He is always right on His time.” We are happy with the LORD if we obey him. He will then give us all that we need. It might not happen immediately, but it will happen. We must learn to wait for God’s time. This means the time when God decides to do something.

III. Waiting Doesn’t Mean Wasting Time

We are not to forget an important truth in this story: God blessed Joseph while he was in prison…while he was waiting.  “The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under ​​Joseph’s authority, because ​​the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.” (Genesis 39:23 NKJ) Even though God made be late, or appear late, He is still with His people in the waiting and is always good. Waiting doesn’t mean wasting time. But Waiting is indeed hard. It’d be so much easier to do something. G. Campbell Morgan has said “waiting for God is not going to sleep. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.”

IV. Waiting is not Resentment but Refinement

Many of us have no patience to wait until His time comes however in our Christian life waiting is necessary. The Psalmist had to wait until God brings judgment upon the evil doers. The psalmist saw that many evil people had everything that they wanted. They did what they liked. Nobody stopped them. They hurt poor people that did not have very much. The psalmist began to feel resentment against them first, later he realized it was not good for him to get angry against wicket and decided to wait until the Lord bring judgment upon them. He believed that one day God would put things right. The psalmist just had to wait for that day to come. The waiting days of the Psalmist refined him to keep his trust on the Lord, refined him to refrain from the anger against the wicked, it also refined him to refrain from following the ways of the wicked people. God allows the waiting days in our lives to refine our soul from anger, envy and refine us from unholy things that we are doing now.

Conclusion  

The very situation that you are facing right now could be a trial of endurance and change. God makes His children to walk through such times because it’s the only way prepare you to meet God’s plan for your life. To take away what is unnecessary, and shape up your character and attitudes. The following statement and the illustration were taken from sermon central. The God on the Mountain Is still God in the valley. When things go wrong He’ll make them right. The God of the Good Times Is still God in the Bad Times. The God of the Day Is still God in the Night. God’s delays mean he has something better in store for us. But, yes, God’s timing is very often different than ours.

A father was taking a nature hike with his 6 year old son. The child was running ahead, and came to a creek...afraid that he was going to fall in, the father said CHILD, WAIT FOR ME AND I’LL GET YOU ACROSS...SURPRISINGLY, THE CHILD OBEYED, AND WHEN THE FATHER GOT THERE, HE LIFTED THE CHILD UPON HIS SHOULDERS, AND WADED ACROSS THE CREEK. The son said, "If I hadn't waited on you, I would never have made it across!" How true of us...Let us WAIT ON GOD...HE’LL GET US ACROSS ANY OBSTACLE LIFE PUTS IN OUR WAY. Dear brothers and sisters let us wait for our Master till He takes us to the other side of the river. God Bless You.

Where Is Your Light?

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Matthew 5:16

G. Paulraj

Every followers of Christ and the preachers of the Gospel are expected to diffuse the light of salvific knowledge and power of divine love before the circle of their acquaintance. We can create great impact in the lives of the people and call the people towards repentance by letting out light shine before them. Our Holy life, pure conversations and our edifying and faithful instructions are the channels that help us to let our light shine before men.

Let your light so shine ... - Let your holy life, your pure conversation, and your faithful instructions, be everywhere seen and known. Always, in all societies, in all business, at home and abroad, in prosperity and adversity, let it be seen that you are real Christians. When a Christian follows the word of God and permits it to work in his /her life then he or she lets his or her light shine before men. We are called and 

expected to show our love and kindness not only to the people who doesn’t harm us but also to the people who hates us. Even we are expected to extend our help and charity to the people who consider us as their enemies (in our Christian life we don’t have enemies on this earth except Satan, he is our enemy because he is one and only enemy of our Lord).

Our good attitude before men including believers and non- believers will help them to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Our good attitude before men will serve them as the channel of their salvation. Finally our good attitude before men will prompt them to glorify our God in heaven. Look at the verse it says if we let our light shine before men they will be drawn to God.

Verse 14 says “You are the light of the world.” That means God has given us an opportunity to live for Him only on this earth. If you and I miss this golden opportunity we will be lost forever we not only loose our precious souls but also we let others to lose their soul through our misconduct. Only one life live it for the glory of God, God gives us enough time to glorify Him through our words and deeds let us make use of this opportunity to lead others into Christ as well as to glorify His Holy name.  

The story is told of a little girl who was shivering her way along a main street in one of our great cities. Seeing the beautiful lights of a church building and hearing the music coming from within, she went in and warmed herself as she listened. The preacher's text was, "I am the light of the world." At the close of the service, she went to the minister and said, "Did you say you are the light of the world, sir?" The minister replied, "No, dear child. Christ is the light of the world, and I am one of the lights." The little lass looked at him for a moment, and then solemnly said, "Well, sir, I wish you would come down and hang out in our alley, 'cause it's awful dark down there!" Christians are, indeed, as the Master said, "the light of the world." As one of those lights, are you "hanging out" in some dark alley? This Illustration is taken from Biblical Research Monthly. Is our Light shine before men? Finally our actions speak louder than words! When you say that you are a Christian, then you should live your life as a Christian. Like the lighthouse, let your light shine!

Submit Yourself to your Heavenly Master

G. Paulraj

In our life whatever we yield to that becomes our master especially before our salvation we were slave to sin or to Satan who is the author of all transgression, trespasses. But after our salvation now we belong to Christ and we are freed from that old slavery and we have become God’s servants. Therefore Apostle Paul in Romans 6:18-19 invites us to be the servants of righteousness because once we yielded our bodies to uncleanness and iniquity unto iniquity. But now according to Romans 6:19 we are expected to yield ourselves to the Lord in the same way we yielded to sin. Or in other words we should have a desire to be as good a saint as we were sinners.

As Christians and as saved believers we ought to obey God and yield ourselves to righteousness because when we yield ourselves to righteousness we will be serving God or in other word we will be slave to Him not to sin. Apostle Paul in this passage explains this committed Christian life with the analogy of a master/slave relationship in conjunction to which we would serve?

In verse 19 Paul tells them why, “I speak this way using the illustration of slaves and masters, because it is easy for you to understand.” During the 1st Century in the Roman world the old master’s authority over the slave will come to an end when a slave was passed to new ownership. Once says Paul you were slaves to sin and the Sin was your old master. Before Christ become your master you were forced to do all the evil desires your heart ordered you to do you had no power to say “No”. Think about your own life today. What has God liberated you from that you were powerless to change in your best efforts: Anger? Rage? Immorality?  Impurity? Addiction to drugs or to watching pornographies? Did you find yourself in a lifestyle that repeated itself in destructive mistakes and bad influences on a path of self-destruction?

According to this text that lifestyle and those patterns should be completely broken no longer embraced or lived now because you have come to Christ. You have been free from sin’s power When slaves were transferred to the new owner there is a new set of rules. So Paul goes on to say: But now you have passed from the service of sin into the service of God; your business now is to do what pleases God, not what sin dictates.

What it means to live under grace and submitting ourselves to His mastery is illustrated by the life of John Newton. Newton was born in London, half a century before the American Revolution, to a mother of superb spiritual qualities and a nondescript father. His mother died when he was six. Five years later he went to sea with his father who was a ship’s captain. He became a midshipman and for a time led a wild existence, living in utter disgrace. He rejected the God of his mother, he renounced any need of religion and he lived an irresponsible and sinful life. Eventually he became a slave trader, crossing the ocean several times as captain of slave ship, responsible for terrible human degradation among the captives he had crowded on board. But grace was always a factor in his life. He survived a deadly fever in Africa, and his ship survived a terrible storm which almost killed him.

Finally, dissatisfied with his life, he began reading the writings of Thomas a Kempis. Somehow, the Holy Spirit began stirring inside his soul, awakening him from sin, urging him toward salvation until he finally gave his heart to Christ. He was so thoroughly converted, in fact, that he felt a call from God to enter the ministry. He was eventually ordained in 1781 and accepted a pastorate in Olney, England. But Newton’s disgraceful past never left his memory and he was completely dumbfounded over the privilege of living joyously free under the divine grace of God. In an intense moment of inspiration, when he was thinking of the wonder of the grace of God which had saved even a wretch like him, he wrote the hymn, "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound." Theologian Charles Hodge explained the relationship between divine grace and the human heart. “The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.”

Thus the true children of God will serve His/her master who delivered him or her from the bondage of sin. Dear reader the choice is left to you either you can choose to serve the old master of your life and reap the wages of sin or you can choose to serve Jesus as your Master and live a life of holiness and Christ-like character.

The Greatest Blessing that God gives to those who seek Him

G. Paulraj

God will save, keep and satisfy those who seek Him diligently. Those who know the Lord and put their trust on Him will enjoy the above mentioned God’s blessings in their lives. King David experienced God’s blessings although his life because he diligently sought God. God was well pleased with David therefore He called David man after His heart. The greatest blessing that David enjoyed apart from God’s protection, providence was God’s presence. David was afflicted in every way by his enemies but he was not crushed. His enemies had tried to strike him down but he was not destroyed because He sought the Lord always. The secret behind David’s victory over his enemies revealed in Psalms 55:16 he said “As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and He shall hear my voice.” God’s constant presence was with David therefore his enemies were not able destroy him.

If God be for us who can be against us? - Who can injure or destroy us? The ungodly people may be against us, and so may Satan the great enemy of our souls, but their power to destroy us is taken away. God is mightier than all our foes; and he can defend and save us; see Psalm 118:6. "The Lord is on my side; I will not fear what man can do unto me." If God is for us, nothing can be against us. All we must do is walk on the path God has designed for us.

David Livingstone, the famous missionary to Africa, returned to England for a brief visit towards the end of his life. He was honored by Queen Victoria and was asked to address the students at Cambridge University. Very simply and very quietly he said to them, "Gentlemen, shall I tell you what it was that kept me true to my resolve through all those years in the Dark Continent? It was the words of our risen Lord, 'Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.'"

God's presence in human experiences is a tremendous and inescapable fact of life. Let me ask you: Are you conscience of the presence of God in your life?  Do you live in the reality of it? Do you enjoy such an experience? If not then this message is for you. This truth and reality of God's inescapable presence got hold of David the Psalmist and it so overwhelmed and overpowered him to seek the Lord diligently all through his life.