Going Deep

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;

all your waves and breakers have swept over me.

Psalm 42:7

These last few months have been an interesting time in my life. While I've had similar seasons before, my wind has blown differently this time around.

Have you ever driven to your destination and by the time you arrive, you wonder how you got there? That describes both the busyness and the stillness I have been encountering. Did I say busyness and stillness? Yes, I did. I know, it must sound contradictory and may not appear to make sense, but it is exactly where God has had me, and time has flown by in the process.

I've had the desire to write, but God was clearly interrupting me from it. In obedience to His leading, I've kept busy as His servant. It has been a gloriously complicated process of praying, seeking, listening and submitting. It's been gut wrenching.....read desperate! Yes, it's been a time of great desperation! Desperation for things that are deep and personal within my very soul, and for God himself and the changes only He can bring to this world.

It's been so deep that I've wondered if there would ever be a way I could properly interpret it to someone elses understanding.

That's when this scripture came to me:

Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls;
all your waves and breakers have swept over me.
Psalm 42:7

Deep calls unto deep is a phrase that many have used to refer to a deep, personal experience of the Lord ministering to them—from the depths of God’s heart to the depths of their own.

In truth it was written in a different way. The writer was going through very difficult circumstances. Sorrow and affliction were pounding him relentlessly, and he was overwhelmed by the weight of it all. All he could hear was the roaring waters of trouble. But, in his desperation, he realized that God was moving on his behalf. Although he was disoriented by his burdens, he addressed them in faith by expressing:

Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.
Psalm 42:5

Responding to the despair with such a faith leads to the testimony in verse 8:

By day the Lord directs his love,
at night his song is with me--
a prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8

Even in the midst of the worst trouble, those who are in covenant with God have a source that will not only comfort them and get them through the time of distress, but will cause them to overcome and rejoice. God’s love, provision and protection will be made manifest to them in the broad daylight, where everybody can see it. In the night, there will be no terror, no worry, no sorrow—only a song hope.

Outwardly, the depth of misery and pain weighed heavily upon him. But there is a depth that is greater and much more powerful. Powerful enough to overwhelm sorrow and affliction and carry them far away. It is the depth of God’s love, the revelation of His heart.

This is God's will being made known on our behalf, and it is always for the working of our good. There is also the depth of God’s song stirring inside us, the song of His Spirit always encouraging us, renewing our hope and rekindling our faith. This love and this song comes from the heart of God to penetrate the depths of our own hearts.

What a powerful revelation!

My friends, God does not want you wasting away from the heaviness and despair in your hearts. Perhaps its been placed there by abortion, or perhaps its been something else. The point is, will you respond? I have such an urgency in my spirit to not only communicate this truth to you but to urge you to that point of responding. God has made known to you a way that is far better....the time is now to surrender all of your despair to Him.

DEEP CALLS TO DEEP!