ALONE

“I WATCH, AND AM AS A SPARROW ALONE UPON THE HOUSE TOP.” PSALM 102:7

What more can you be when being your best is not good enough? How far must you run before your history does not catch up to you? How far can you go that your shadow doesn’t threaten to overtake you? Where can you hide when no hiding place wants you?

Have you ever given your all and your all is not enough? How it is that evil men deliberate in their wickedness prosper, but righteous men are condemned in their humanness?

“I WATCH, AND AM AS A SPARROW ALONE UPON THE HOUSE TOP.” I see the churches of hypocrites and liars full and few hungering after God’s plans. I see the abusive and the manipulators succeed, but the holy and the humble are discounted as failures and fools.

The question is not whether God exists or not, the question is whether or not God is aware that you exist. On the roofline where He placed you; your vantage point allows you to see the goings on around you and yet you so often seem to sit alone.

At some point, one begins to wonder whether or not it is worth the watching any longer. Should one sit or take flight; does a single sparrow matter to anyone at any rate?

Scripture does say that a single sparrow does not fall that its father doesn’t take notice of it; perhaps God is waiting for the sparrow to fall! Have you ever felt so desolate and forgotten?

“I WATCH, AND AM AS A SPARROW ALONE UPON THE HOUSE TOP.” Dear God, When we feel alone remind of your presence. Remind us that you have placed us where we are and that we are still under your care. If we fall, you will be there to catch us, but even if you wouldn’t we still belong to you; remind us this day, I pray, Amen!