In times of wonder and beauty we never stop to ask God, why? We praise Him, perhaps not enough but we generally don't ask Him why He he chooses to bless us.
In times of difficulty, when each and every step is a mammoth effort, when our hearts ache and our eyes are filled with salty tears, we ask why? Over and over and over again. We don't praise Him. At all.
And yet we should praise and rejoice in the happy and in the sad. If we ask why in the bad, we should ask why He ever chooses to bless wretched sinners such as us, in the good.
He is directing our paths and watching us in every single step of our life. That dark path your facing? That sense of deepest despair? The path of drudgery which seems to be never ending? He knows. He cares. And He brings us along that path because He is good and it is for our good. Even though this side of heaven we may never fully grasp what that good is.
This is beautiful and so true! I take great comfort in this: "watching us in every single step of our life" without Him, I would surely fail and stumble.
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Mary
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Yes!
ReplyDeleteWe need to sometimes be gently reminded that we will probably never know the reasons this side of heaven why certain paths opened up for us and certain directions remained closed. May we have grace to learn the lessons He longs to teach us in the midst of our questioning!
Linda Stoll
This is so encouraging! A beautiful message in good times and bad.
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