"What if..."

Nov 21, 2011

All too often I've tried to determine my own destiny.  All the while questioning and doubting along the way.  The "what if's" have been endless.  You would think I would know by now that faith is not believing that God can see us through, it is knowing that He will.  This past year has been one uncertainty after another.  And as much as I'd like to say that I didn't lean on my own understanding, I did just that.  I tried to make sense of each and every turn of events.  After two career changes (in less than six months), a husband injured in two separate accidents, financial hardship beyond what I could have imagined and a marriage of five years continued to hit below rock bottom, I think every ounce of faith I had crumbled.  As hard as it is for me to understand, I have to believe that everything happens for a reason and through each and every trial, there is a lesson to be taught.  Life is truly a gift and so are the loved ones we share it with.  Our time here is not guaranteed and it is got promised to be an easy one for us.  We are promised God's unconditional love.  A love that surpasses all understanding.  A forgiving love when we screw up time after time again.  A love that provides comfort, healing and understanding.  1 Corinthians 13:4-8   Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy; is not boastful; is not conceited; 5 does not act improperly; is not selfish; is not provoked; does not keep a record of wrongs; 6 finds no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  8 Love never fails.  I love the lyrics of this song.  It reminds me that some of the greatest blessings do not always appear to be blessings at all. 


We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise

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