Trials and life altering tribulations occur in all of our lives, but it seems that some experience more than their share of suffering. I know this first hand. When I was diagnosed with a potentially life threatening disease I thought my world had just been turned upside down. Then six months later our five month old grandson died of SIDS. Life couldn’t get much harder! Then six months later our daughter in law and two of our grandchildren were in a horrible accident that left our four year old grandson paralyzed from the neck down. Yes, this had to be the most life altering experience of my life.
We all have our own way of dealing with pain. Some people blame themselves. Some lash out at the people closest to them. Some withdraw inward. Some blame God and some fall on their knees and beg HIM for help. I fall into the latter category. It is difficult to say this without sounding a little crazy but if I had not experienced these events I wouldn’t know God the way I do today. When I needed Him the most He was there! If you have never experienced the Holy Spirit upon you it is hard to explain the peace that just comes over you. No matter what the circumstance you know in your heart that everything is going to be alright…..no matter what the outcome.
Our grandson just turned eight and he is a blessing from God. I know that God did not cause the accident but He did allow it to happen. I don’t know the exact purpose for my family’s suffering but I do know that as a result I am a changed person. God has shown me things in my life that needed to be dealt with and things that needed to be done away with. I truly am a new creation.
God’s Word says that “if we say we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we are lying and are not practicing the truth. But if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 6-7 I was saved at 8 years old and then again at 18 but never really lived a Christian life. That is until I realized how much I needed Jesus. Not the Jesus I prayed to when I remembered or the Jesus that I sang hymns to when I did make it to church. I needed the Jesus of the bible. The life giving, life saving King of Kings. I needed the Risen Savior! And to my joy He was waiting for me with open arms. All I had to do was humble myself before Him. I cried out to Him lost and brokenhearted and He rescued me. He gave me His peace. The peace that surpasses all understanding! It’s true, there is nothing like the Love of Jesus!! As you think about the trials of your life and wonder if you can have this peace, the answer is yes. Yes you can! Jesus is waiting for you too.
SCRIPTURE
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, because He cares about you. 1 Peter 5:6-7
You rejoice in this, though now for a short time you have had to be distressed by various trials. So that the genuineness of your faith more valuable than gold, which perishes though refined by fire may result in praise, glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 1:6-7
When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will give you mighty inner strength through His Holy Spirit. And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts as you trust in Him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now glory be to God! By His mighty power at work within us, He is able to accomplish infinitely more than we would ever dare to ask or hope. May He be given glory in the church and in Christ Jesus forever and ever through endless ages. Amen Ephesians 3:14-21
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