A dear friend whose husband struggles with SSA shared this poem with me last week. It touched a raw place in my heart and I’ve been meditating on it ever since. So often I expect God to wave a magic wand and “Poof!” everything will be as I expect it. Then God gently reminds me that He’s not in the magic wand business; He’s in the deep healing business and that takes time, patience, and a never wavering trust in Him.
What We Need Most
What we need most is not to hear God say yes to our requests.
What we need is to be filled with such deep confidence
in the character of our Father that when He says no,
we know He is doing what is right and good for us.
What we need most is the faith to trust him.
Some claim that strong faith is defined by throwing our energies into
begging God for a miracle that will take away our suffering,
and then believing without doubting that He will do it.
But faith is not measured by our ability to manipulate God to get what we want;
it is measured by our willingness to submit to what He wants.
It takes great faith to say to God,
“Even if you don’t heal me or the one I love,
even if you don’t change my circumstances,
even if you don’t restore this relationship,
even if you allow me to lose what is most precious to me,
I will still love you and obey you and believe that you are good.
And I believe that you, as my loving Father,
will use everything in my life—
even the hard and hurtful things—
for my ultimate good and your eternal glory,
because You love me.”
~Nancy Guthrie~
What we need most is not to hear God say yes to our requests.
What we need is to be filled with such deep confidence
in the character of our Father that when He says no,
we know He is doing what is right and good for us.
What we need most is the faith to trust him.
Some claim that strong faith is defined by throwing our energies into
begging God for a miracle that will take away our suffering,
and then believing without doubting that He will do it.
But faith is not measured by our ability to manipulate God to get what we want;
it is measured by our willingness to submit to what He wants.
It takes great faith to say to God,
“Even if you don’t heal me or the one I love,
even if you don’t change my circumstances,
even if you don’t restore this relationship,
even if you allow me to lose what is most precious to me,
I will still love you and obey you and believe that you are good.
And I believe that you, as my loving Father,
will use everything in my life—
even the hard and hurtful things—
for my ultimate good and your eternal glory,
because You love me.”
~Nancy Guthrie~
“And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.” Colossians 1:10-12
~joyfully broken
~joyfully broken
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