In my journey of trust, I realize that so many other words are invovled - faith, contentment and even blessings. It is easy to feel sometimes when things don't seem to go our way that we are missing out on God's blessings. When I am stuck in a rut of thinking, I like to try to approach it (or sometimes my prayers) from a different angle. What if my struggles and trials ARE God's blessings? What if the reason I feel my prayers aren't being answered is because I am limiting God in what I am praying? What if what God desires is truly, as scripture says, more than an I can hope or imagine? Maybe He needs to change my heart, to change my perspective, to change my prayer. A song I heard on our local radio station http://www.ksbj.org/, really struck me in my examination of this:
Blessings
Artist: Laura Story
Album: Blessings
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 is 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
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
As long as we have faith to believe
When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not our home
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
What if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are your mercies in disguise
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