Lately, our family has been challenged in a way that we never anticipated. Each day, we are learning to trust in God's perfect timing and lean on his sovereignty and faithfulness. I understand that these words are flippantly tossed about in Sunday School classes each week, but folks- it's real.
It's real when your husband loses his job and you can't get your house sold fast enough. It's real when you realize you might be moving to the other side of the country, away from friends and family, to further the gospel. It's real when your husband works like a dog laying hard wood floors an hour away to make ends meet. Let's face it- though never easy, God uses hard times in our lives to teach us, draw us in, and make us more like Jesus.
Like James says,"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." James 1:2-4
On the hard days, what a blessing it is to know that the God I have placed my hope in is all powerful and that He will receive the glory through all of this.
"Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." Ephesians 3: 20-21
Through all this, God has drawn us in and reminded us of his everlasting love for us. He hasn't forgotten about us or thrown his hands up in frustration and moved on. He is here and in complete control. Blessed beyond measure to be a daughter of The King today.
He is our reason to Love.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us." 1 John 4:7-12
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