Grief is so similar and so different all at the same time. It comes in so many different ways from so many different directions. You want people to help/encourage you but yet you don't want them to say something really stupid like "I know how you feel" or "Just lean on the Lord, He will help you." While neither of those statement are stupid alone it seems like when you just want to be in that moment of anger it's the last thing you want to hear because really you're not stupid, you KNOW these things. You grew up in a Christian home, you went to Bible college, you spend many summers at camps, you've been on the mission field. Shouldn't that of taught you everything you need to know?
but no my dear friends. Those things might teach us WHAT to do if bad things happen but really it is those trials that refine us and test us and when we truly learn how to cling to our Savior. We truly understand a peace that serpasses ALL understanding. We know what it's like to be angry and sad at the same time and feel as if Jesus is so far yet sooo close. We maybe have a better understanding of what "sovereignty" and all that really is... or perhaps we just know that we don't HAVE to get it, we just need to know that in fact He IS. I think sometimes as 'smart' christians we become so wrapped up in all the doctrine and stuff we almost forget how to just live for Him. It amazes me the things that the Lord has brought me and all my friends through to completely change who we are. So many of us have been through the fire, but through it all God has been so so faithful. Never forget that. When we are in the PIT that is when He is the most near. There is so many verses I have clung to over the past two years, but the ones that stick out the most to me are...
2Cor. 12:9-10
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Praise you Jesus that you are STRONG for us when we feel so so very weak and hurt.
but no my dear friends. Those things might teach us WHAT to do if bad things happen but really it is those trials that refine us and test us and when we truly learn how to cling to our Savior. We truly understand a peace that serpasses ALL understanding. We know what it's like to be angry and sad at the same time and feel as if Jesus is so far yet sooo close. We maybe have a better understanding of what "sovereignty" and all that really is... or perhaps we just know that we don't HAVE to get it, we just need to know that in fact He IS. I think sometimes as 'smart' christians we become so wrapped up in all the doctrine and stuff we almost forget how to just live for Him. It amazes me the things that the Lord has brought me and all my friends through to completely change who we are. So many of us have been through the fire, but through it all God has been so so faithful. Never forget that. When we are in the PIT that is when He is the most near. There is so many verses I have clung to over the past two years, but the ones that stick out the most to me are...
2Cor. 12:9-10
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Praise you Jesus that you are STRONG for us when we feel so so very weak and hurt.
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Those are some of my favorite verses!!
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