Several years ago a friend of mine lost her three sons and husband in a boating accident. That was incomprehensible to me! I was mad at God! I couldn't even image how she was feeling. How could He allow that to happen to her? I wrestled with it for many years. I was fearful that something tragic could happen to me, too. How would I survive if I lost my loved ones. I wouldn't go on anymore. I wouldn't want to live!
I have been very upset with God with all the lives lost in Asia and Africa. "I don't understand, God!" "Why would you allow so many to perish?" "I know you have a reason that we can't comprehend, and we don't have to know why, we just have to continue to have faith in You" So, God and I have been in great discussion over this subject for many years.
He has taught me many things through the years. I know that God is with me all the time! I know that God loves me more than I will ever understand! I know God's grace is sufficient for me! He will furnish me with His great power whenever I need it! When my grandmother and mother-n-law passed away years ago, God supplied me with a supernatural strength and peace. When our whole house flooded awhile back, God gave me humor and patients to deal with it. When I am fearful about life, I remember this verse:
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart." Jeremiah 29:11-13
Well, I started this post today because when I was reading "Our Daily Bread". It talks about undeserved blessings and at the end states the words to the song "Count Your Blessings". Such a simple song that most of us probably have memorized, brings so much healing to me when life is uneasy. Sing it with me:
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?
Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessing, every doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by.
Count your blessings, name them one by one
Count your blessings. see what God has done
Count your blessings,name them one by one
Count your many blessing,see what God has done!
I am laughing, picturing all of you singing at your computer!
I hope it brings a smile to your face as well!
2 comments:
I was singing with you... even with my froggy voice!
From one blessed woman to another!
Tina
sometimes that fear is so gripping of when we realize what we have and how much it means to us, and to think of something unimaginable happening to it!! Then the Spirit kicks me in the butt to say "the what if game is not of God," and I know it's something warped from the accuser to get me to focus on not living fully, but to guard what is "mine" because that's when I take my focus off of God and His supreme authority and love, to try to live in reserve. It's a battle at times to have the first thought in my head be that things like my husband and children are "on loan" to me and that I am to steward them for God.... but with every passing day, and every passing thought.... it surfaces that I trust His will for me, His love for me, and His desire to fulfill His promise of Jer 29:11-13 like you said!!!
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