David Wilkerson Today
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011
CHRIST REIGNS!
by David Wilkerson
Often people write to us saying, “I have no one to talk to, no one to share
my burden with. Nobody has time to hear my cry. I need someone I can pour my
heart out to.”
King David was surrounded by people. He was married, with a large family, and
had many companions at his side. Yet we hear the same cry even from David:
“To whom shall I go?” It is in our very nature to want another human being,
with a face, eyes and ears to listen to us and advise us.
When Job became overwhelmed by his trials, he cried out with grief: “Oh that
one would hear me!” (Job 31:35). He uttered this cry while sitting before his
so-called friends. Yet those friends had no sympathy for Job’s troubles.
Instead, they were messengers of despair.
In his sorrow, Job turned only to the Lord: “Behold, my witness is in heaven,
and my record is on high… Mine eye poureth tears unto God” (Job 16:19-20).
In the Psalms, David urged God’s people to do likewise: “Trust in him at
all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us”
(Psalm 62:8). David also wrote in Psalm 142:
“I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make
my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my
trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, thou knewest my path. In the
way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right
hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no
man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge
and my portion in the land of the living” (142:1-5).
I believe in my heart this message is an invitation to you from the Holy Spirit
to find a private place where you can frequently pour out your soul to the Lord.
David “poured out his complaint,” and so can you. You can speak to Jesus
about everything – your problems, your present trial, your finances, your
health – and tell him how overwhelmed you are, even how discouraged you are.
He will hear you with love and sympathy, and he will not despise your cry.
God answered David. He answered Job. And for centuries he has answered the
heart-cry of everyone who has trusted his promises. Likewise, he has promised
to hear you and guide you. Indeed, he has pledged by oath to be your strength.
Go to him, and you will come out renewed.
Read this devotion online: http://www.worldchallenge.org/en/node/13456
"Oh that God would give every mother a vision of the glory and splendor of the work that is given to her when a babe is placed in her bosom to be nursed and trained! Could she have but one glimpse in to the future of that life as it reaches on into eternity; could she look into its soul to see its possibilities; could she be made to understand her own personal responsibility for the training of this child, for the development of its life, and for its destiny,--she would see that in all God's world there is no other work so noble and so worthy of her best powers, and she would commit to no other's hands the sacred and holy trust given to her." -JR Miller
