‘I will be your God’ — the relationship that is not broken even in death. When the hopes and dreams are torn away and we wrestle with God, He does not leave us alone. Jesus took that from us when He was abandoned on our account. The Spirit of Jesus dwells with the believer throughout trial and need, from beginning to end. “I was an unthinking animal toward You. Yet I am always with You” (Psalm 73:22-23). “Even when I go through the darkest valley, I fear no danger, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff—they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.” (Psalm 23:4-5).
God is the one who deeply meets deep needs. Our need is a great tension around which we come to know ourselves and God. But anyone who comes to God with a need will find that He will not be relegated to simply being the one who meets our needs. He is not only the Fulfillment; His fullness overflowed to create that which now needs fulfillment. Or to put it another way, if life is a question and God is the answer, He is also the question-maker, and the first conversationalist. Sometimes He does not meet the need, does not answer, and I can only say that is His right; I will wait on Him. Maybe we have forgotten God as a person and made Him a component in the equation of life. Maybe we have avoided God as a person in an attempt to make Him make sense.
