He is Our Portion

      

While studying Lamentations, a book in the Old Testament, it really
brings to mind who our portion is.  It was the Lord who brought on the
captivity of the Israelites to the Babylonians when they refused to
obey the Lord's commandments.  All that the Lord had blessed them with
was taken away.  As they grew further away from the Lord and
worshipped other gods and images, His grace finally left and they had
to pay the consequences of suffering, being in bondage and a
seperation from the Lord.

The Lord is our portion.  He commands for us to trust in Him and obey.
 He has given us the ability to be empowered by the Holy Spirit to be
lead by Him in the right direction we should go.  When we trust in His
guidance, depend on His word, seek His favor and put Him first we will
have the perfect peace that passes all understanding.  Even if we go
through various trials, when we put our trust and faith in Him we can
have the hope that He will always lead us in the path of righteousness
for His name sake.

It is very easy in our World especially in our country, to seek other
gods, so to speak.  When we are down we can use other means to comfort
us.  But we need to realize that God is our portion, our strength in
our time of need, our encouragment when we are down, our everlasting
force that keeps us moving forward on a fruitful meaningful path.  It
does not matter what the circumstances may look like in our life, how
people may treat us or view us.  What really matters is that He is our
portion and that He can give us the perfect peace that passes all
understanding, the love in our heart that we so disperately desire and
need.

He has put in our hearts a desire to love and serve Him.  We have been
wired to love and worship Him.  We all sense a void in our hearts that
always wants and never gets satisfied.  A need to look up to someone
we can believe in.  When that desire is not the Lord that we are
worshipping and looking up to,  we are dissappointed every time.  For
nothing is forever accept the Lord.  The lives we live and all that we
have in our lives is temporal, but the Word of God, our Lord is
forever.

As we look to the things that are above, our Lord and His everlasting,
power, peace and salvation that we attain through Him we will realize
that is all we need.  He is our portion, the Only Portion that we need
always and forever.  He is our all and all.

May you rest in His perfect peace and love and desire only His Portion
which is all we need in Christ Jesus and may you sense the comfort,
love and understanding of knowing Him is enough.

Serving Him,
KC