*This is the last section of Chapter 3 (God Alone Is The Only Source of All Happiness and Contentment) of the book titled "Have You Felt Like Giving Up Lately" by David Wilkerson.
Feel free to express what You think:
Paul said, "... my God shall supply all Your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phillipians 4:19).
Not Your husband or your wife, pastor, psychiatrist, or Your best friend--but "God"! Go ahead and share Your problems with Your friend or pastor or a professional counselor. But, in the final analysis, they can help You only if they make You face Yourself. You must do it on Your own--take Your needs to the "Lord" and allow "Him" to make You whole. Eventually, You must get rid of every crutch and lean completely on "Jesus" alone.
When Your relationship with the "Lord" is wrong, it affects all human relationships. Most Christian married couples are not having trouble with their marriages. Rather, they are having trouble with "God", with Faith, with Prayer; therefore, they have trouble with each other.
When people confess to me that their marriages are in trouble, I don't have to dig too deeply until I discover they are not where they should be with the "Lord". They are bored with the things of "God", so they are bored with life and marriage. They have lost touch with "God", and, in turn, have lost touch with their spouses. These husbands and wives are not really suffering from a lack of communication with each other; they are suffering mostly from a lack of communication with "God". When people quit talking to "God", they quit talking to one another. And people who quit talking to "God" soon get very lonely and depressed. They are actually lonely for "God", hungering for communion with "Him", yearning for "His" close love and nearness; but, instead of recognizing these needs as Spiritual, they blame their lack of fulfillment on their husbands or wives.
If most Christians were truly honest, they would have to admit there is nothing terminal about their marriage problems. What is wrong is their relationship to the "Lord". Their Faith is in trouble, and when people are not on right terms with "God", they get frustrated and take it out on the ones they love the most. They are actually angry with themselves. That empty, restless feeling is a hunger for "God". But instead of returning to the secret closet to satisfy that thirst, most Christians drift farther away and fall deeper into despair.
There is not a Christian in this world, who, deep in his heart, is not aware that "God" will help him. We know "God" can heal all our hurts; we know "He" can heal any marriage; we know "He" can wipe away every tear and bring joy. But we simply do not take the time or effort to run to "Him" in our hour of need.
You can be happy. You can be a whole person, and You need never again lean on another human being. That is not to say we don't need one another. We need the prayer, help, and comfort of loving friends and family. But there can be no lasting happiness if we expect others to create it for us.
Why not allow "Him" to renew Your heart, renew a right spirit in You, and reveal to You that in "His" presence there is fullness of joy and pleasures evermore? That is why "Jesus" said,
"... Be of good cheer.... Lo, "I" Am With YOU Alway..."
(Matthew 14:27; 28:20)
Posted By: WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
Thursday, November 17th 2005 at 8:44PM
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