I was prepared for today to be difficult. I had experienced a disappointment. One where you have to step outside of what you want and give way to what the Lord wants for you or for someone you love very much. With a "just kicked in the gut" feeling I began my day, asking the Lord to help me honor Him, giving me the words that were edifying for the circumstance and the words the one I love, most needed to hear.
AND THEN IT HAPPENED, I found myself sharing my burden with two fellow believers who crossed the path of my difficult day and THEY were saying the words to me that I most needed to hear. Isn't God amazing? The Lord sent them my way to console and uplift me and their "fellowship" was comfort to my heart and soul.
No matter how many times the Lord "comes through" for me I am still amazed at the "way" He chooses to accomplish what I need and the people He works through to make it happen.
My family is in a season of life we have never experienced before. A time when we have given all to God in a way we never have. Oh, we would have said we had, but not until you face what you never thought you would, do you really "surrender all".
How can it be that my son has chosen the darkness when I raised him in the light? How can it be that he chooses to believe a lie rather than embrace the truth displayed before him everyday of his life? Ah, the many questions of this season of trials.
A few years ago I was given a little book by Ruth Bell Graham called "Prodigals and the people that love them". I never thought I would ever have a prodigal son, but the little book was so compelling and drew me in. The Lord was preparing my heart. Again, isn't He amazing?
Only a faithful and loving God can do what was done for me today, a God who knows my heart, who knows my pain and brings me hope. My Father God, having given HIS WORD to instruct and correct, HIS SPIRIT to comfort and guide, HIS PRECIOUS SON to atone for my sin, cares.
A hundred different hymns must have flooded my mind today-"O For a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise", " I will cast all my care upon you, I will lay all of my burdens, down at your feet", "I believe in a Hill called Mount Calvary, I'll believe what ever the cost", "HE'S everything that my soul ever longed for, everything He promised and so much more, More than amazing, More than marvelous, More than miraculous could ever be, HE'S more than wonderful, that's what JESUS is to me".
I was prepared for a difficult day, but HE had other plans.
