Isaiah 44:25 who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,

I had the most troubling dream tonight and I cannot seem to shake the feelings of frustration. The dream was about being caught in a situation of helplessness and the callus attitude of everyone surrounding me.

I turn to the scriptures for some sort of clarity even though I already know the truth.

God’s will be done.

Being hundreds of miles away when someone you love needs comforting is frustrating so we pray. We offer up prayers for those we love all the time and the results of our prayers do not always go as we would wish.

Decades of experience tells us that God’s will is unknown until revealed in some form. For some, the lucky ones, their prayers are answered. The rest of us find ourselves in mourning.

Somewhere between the prayer and the outcome is that feeling of helplessness and frustration, knowing that while prayer is our best option, the outcome is uncertain.

I’ve been on both sides of mourning. Mourn with those who mourn. The only help I ever received while mourning myself came from the Holy Spirit Who came as a cooling breeze to lower the waves of pain and make it just a little bit easier to bear.

I know where these very human feelings of frustration are coming from, helplessness in the face of losing someone I love. God willing we will not lose him and I know my pangs of helplessness are felt by others and I wish I had a comforting scripture to share, but that search only added to my feelings of helplessness.

The best I can offer anyone else feeling as I do is not to lose hope and to continue in fervent prayer.

God willing.

“Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

Without the address, chapter and verse, do you know in your heart what comes next?

Before you answer, ask yourselves if you are searching your memory or your heart.

“for by professing it some have swerved from the faith.” is the verse that follows.

Faith is not an exercise of the mind but rather a condition of the heart. 

The great commandment is to love God with all your heart first. The soul and the mind follow. God, being a God of order, places great emphasis on the condition of the heart.

John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Hebrews 3:15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

Rebellion is such a harsh accusation and should be taken seriously. In order to see why that word is used we need to look and see what happened back then.

Psalm 95:8 do not harden your hearts, as at Meribah, as on the day at Massah in the wilderness,

In Numbers 20 the people complained, “And why have you made us come up out of Egypt to bring us to this evil place? It is no place for grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, and there is no water to drink.” So God told Moses to take his staff and speak to the rock to bring them water. Moses disobeyed God and struck the rock for a second time, a symbol of crucifying Christ afresh. For this rebellion against God Moses was denied entry into the Promise Land and died in the wilderness.

Before we judge Moses’ rebellion as justification for rejection of the resurrection, remember that Moses met Jesus in eternity on the Mount of Transfiguration.

A hardened heart blocks promises. It has not yielded itself to God by faith.