I’m amazed at how the timing of my one year Bible reading plan is so very relevant to the season of life my husband and I are in right now. It’s one of those, ‘Dear God please let this be a season that will end in .02 seconds’, kind of a season. This season involves a lot of pain and heart ache. It’s filled with loving someone deeply while letting go and holding to sacred boundaries. Learning how to love while not agree and wishing it was different.
But as I turn to God and his word I find so many truths that I have needed to learn and be reminded of:
Reassurance of decisions we have had to make.
Confidence that God’s Faithfulness remains.
Comfort that his love will never end for each of us and his presence we cannot get away from.
Hope that the greatest treasure any of us could ever have, a relationship with Jesus Christ, will never be taken away.
Understanding that God’s word really is true. The effects of sin are real and God does what he says he’s going to do. And yet there is still mercy waiting.
Remembering to not forget. Not to forget what God has done in the past and praise Him for it now.
All these truths were tucked away in the reading I’ve done the last few weeks. I don’t think it’s random. I really don’t because I trust God’s word is alive and active. It’s 100% reliable, truth and relevant to us today.
Our circumstances have not changed yet and we are praying daily they will. Only God can do that kind of changing but He CAN do that kind of change. So we keep praying and trusting. We hope in the fact that God has not changed and never will. He won’t change his Faithfulness factor one tiny bit. That is what we are clinging to – sometimes through tears.
Why, my soul are you so dejected? Why are you in such turmoil? Put your hope in God, for I will still praise him, my Savior and my God. Ps. 43:5
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