I'm sitting here...confused and hurting...for a friend. When life throws us a damaging blow, how do we respond? With guilt? With anger? With sadness? With resentment? Its hard to find the peace and love in some moments in time. Everyday in my car before I walk into work I ask God "Let's make something great happen today." I have to keep hearing the words "God's not done." But, when the bad news doesn't stop how is it SO hard to keep hearing this? I don't know. I can't know. However what I do know is that God's not done. He can't be done. There has to be more to his plan than this. He does have a plan for us all, and its is good.
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans of good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope." Jeremiah 29:11 All we can do is wait for it. If we keep doing what is right every day, the blessings will come at just the right time - his time. "So let's not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don't give up. Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone-especially to those in the family of faith" Galatians 6:9-10 We ask for him to bless us even when all we see are pains and brick walls, but we ask him to bless us so that we can enlarge his territory. "He was the one who prayed to the God of Israel, "Oh that you would bless me and expand my territory! Please be with me in all that I do, and keep me from all trouble and pain!" And God granted him his request." 1 Chronicles 4:10 Somehow, these burdens may or may not be part of his plan for us, but his plans are that we enlarge his territory. So, then by process of association, how are/can these burdens be part of the blessing? I hope we find an answer..I don't have it...but God will never be done! And he hasn't left you my friend. There is work still to be done.
