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Even in pain, He still is there....

There is strength within the sorrow, There is beauty in our tears
You meet us in our mourning, With a love that casts out fear
You are working in our waiting, Sanctifying us
When beyond our understanding, You're teaching us to trust

Your plans are still to prosper, You have not forgotten us
You're with us in the fire and the flood
Faithful forever, Perfect in love
You are sovereign over us

You are wisdom unimagined, Who could understand your ways
Reigning high above the heavens, Reaching down in endless grace
Youʼre the Lifter of the lowly, Compassionate and kind
You surround and You uphold me, Your promises are my delight

Even what the enemy means for evil
You turn it for our good, You turn it for our good and for your glory
Even in the valley You are faithful
Youʼre working for our good, Youʼre working for our good and for your glory
This is part of the story of a very close friend of mine...
....24 years ago when the mother( who was an International business woman) was in the theater room bringing him forth, the doctors accidentally tempered with an artery that sent her into stroke. This incident was the beginning of her life's journey with God, a life of praying for her four sons and daily committing them to God, a life of nothing else but prayer. The most amazing thing my friend tells me the mother has never referred to him as the cause of her illness and immobilization, she has loved him and prayed for him unceasingly and as a result he has seen the perfect love of Christ expressed through the mother (I literally fought tears at this point)...
At age 9, my friend received Christ and since then he has pledged allegiance to this God. He does street evangelism in Cape town where he is a Civil Engineering student. So passionate about the gospel of Christ he constantly walks with a tract ( a transferable concept) of sharing the gospel any time as the spirit leads. A young man totally sold out to Christ.

Sometimes we go through unproductive, silent, painful seasons in life but God expects us to carry an attitude of thanksgiving and a heart of worship, just because He is God and He is sovereign.
Job 27:4- My lips will not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.... after Job is literally stripped off everything, 27 chapters down the line Job declares that He will not allow his lips to utter wickedness and deceit...
Oh that God would help us be worshipers constantly having an attitude of thanksgiving despite the issues and seasons we go through; Just because He is God and He is Sovereign over all.


Comments

  1. Unknown26 July 2014 at 12:00

    well put T, well said...

    my desire is to worship Him in all seasons... to have an attitude of thanksgiving regardless of the situation,

    Romans 5:3-5
    3 Not only that, but werejoice in our sufferings, knowing that sufferingproduces endurance,
    4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,
    5 andhope does not put us to shame, because God's lovehas been poured intoour hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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