I want to start off by reminding you that God is for you. Let’s say it again God is for you. This is the best thing to remind yourself of, that God is for you. He will take good care of you. He will give you strength and perseverance to get through a pandemic, losing a loved one, financial crisis. Any bump in the road God will provide.
I have been needing a reminder of that myself. I’ve been letting myself ask the question “Am I gonna be able to conquer these hard days?” Allowing myself to feel hopeless, lonely, afraid. Once I remind myself that God is for me, that he does all of this for me even the pain and suffering. This realization helped me to turn the page. Now I have a new question that is “I know I’m gonna make it out but what are these days going to make out of me?” How will God form me into the best version of me, his creation?
As the hard days come and you catch yourself asking that question “Am I going to make it” remind yourself God is for you, he will take care of you and these hard times will only help to shape you. God uses our broken pieces to create something even more beautiful. He is the potter and we are the clay.
When I lost my mom I was asking “What am I going to do without her?” The pain my heart was feeling was indescribable. I was finally able to turn the page with a new question “How can I include my mom in this journey of grief?” My heart still hurts, I’m still longing for my mom, but this is because I still love her and I will always love her so the pain will never fully go away one day it may hurt a little less but it won’t ever fully go away just like how they will never fully leave you. I may not be able to see my mom right now but she has not left me and neither has your loved ones.
My favorite verse is James 1:2-4 “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.”
All of the storms we face is God’s work being done, he is testing our faith only to have it grow stronger, he is making us strong so we can handle any storm that comes while we are still “in between the two gardens” God has a plan, a perfect one.
I pray you find joy in the good and bad the day brings. I pray you are able to turn the page in whatever suffering you are going through, knowing you will get through but wondering what it will make you. I pray as your come out of the the suffering you are not equally the same as you were before, that God has made you even more wise and beautiful. I pray you always remember your loved ones have not and will not ever leave you. I pray you find peace.
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