Oh God...

We've all had one.  Yes, you too.  Believers, and even nonbelievers,  at some very distinct point in their lives have experienced this kind of moment.  You know that moment.  It was the time(s) when something happened in your life that was so gut-wrenchingly awful or so wonderously wonderful, you just couldn't wrap any words around it.  No statement seemed to suffice for expressing what was bubbling up to the surface from deep within you. You tried to speak, but your mouth just hung in the balance. Finally, an unction gets your lips to part and birth out an all-encompassing, "Oh, God!". You don't even really know where it came from.  But it was the only thing that seemed to adequately cover everything you were thinking and feeling. Times like that are either horrible or beautiful.  Think back.  You'll recall that time.  

Anyway, I recently had one of those moments.  There had been a series of unfortunate events and I found myself mulling over things.  You know, trying to figure it all out.  

                                                                               how can I fix this...

I CAN'T FIX ANY OF THIS! 

......but it all has to be fixed.....

yes, but I CAN'T FIX IT....

I HAVE TO FIX IT...

....you have no control over any of this...

well, get control over it.

It has to be fixed. Period.

then, I'll fix it

...but how?

That inside conversation with myself went on until I finally came to my senses and concluded that every ability I had meant nothing in this situation. I needed God. I needed prayer.  The problem was I couldn't even get a prayer out right.  I was so in my head, that when I opened my mouth, it just...hung open.  Finally, after some laboring, I pushed out an "Oh, God...".  It was so weak.  It was a pointless, ineffectual prayer.

I love God.  He wouldn't let me come to Him like that.  He knows the cruciality of prayer.  And he knew I was in a crucial situation.  It wasn't what I was praying that made it weak, it was the place within me that I was praying from that was taking away from the effectiveness of my "Oh, God!".  I was praying from my head, not my spirit and heart.  I was begging when I should have been declaring. So being the God that He is, he helped me.

More thoughts passed through my mind and again my mouth hung open in waiting until eventually I pushed out another "Oh, God".  But this time was different.  This time, I heard my "Oh, God" promptly followed up with "My God, how excellent is your name in all the earth."

Huh? Where did that come from?

Wherever it came from.  It kept coming.

"Oh God..................My God, how excellent is your name in all the earth???"

"Oh God..............My God, how excellent is your name in all the earth..."

"Oh God.........My God, how excellent is your name in all the earth."

"OH GOD, MY GOD, HOW EXCELLENT IS YOUR NAME IN ALL THE EARTH!"

Amen! I hear you, God.  Why am I begging?  Why am I praying outside of my faith? You are God!  And how excellent is your name in all the earth!  

Everything that was bottled up in me, came pouring out in prayer. It came pouring out with tears of assurance.  It came pouring out in faith.  God is who he says he is and he will do what he says he will do.  Amen.  It's the truth. He is the truth. It's from this place within us that our prayers must come: a place of faith.

All of that was said to say this.  Should life compel you to pray that "Oh, God" prayer, for reasons good or bad, finish that prayer on up.

"Oh, God...Our God, how excellent is your name in all the earth." 

After all, He is our God.  He is excellent.  And there is NOTHING greater than Him in all the earth.

Psalm 8King James Version (KJV)

8 O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. ² Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. ³ When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; ⁴ What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ⁵ For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. ⁶ Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: ⁷ All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; ⁸ The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. ⁹ O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

 A Fitting Song....Enjoy!