While my prayers go up for strength and peace during this tough time. I rejoice in the Lord. This beautiful song "I already knew" says: When you call his name in prayer he says/ I already knew what you'd be going through/ and I've been here before you all the time/ I am no stranger to the pain/ for I bore the shame and suffering for you/ your trial didn't take me by surprise/ I already knew ♥
I have listened to this song before but today it struck a different chord with me.
Do we realize how much the Lord hears us when we cry or when we rejoice?
I believe that sometimes we get so caught up in how we feel we forget that others suffer with us. I remember going through my period of depression and all I was concerned with was how hopeless I felt. It was not until I was fully out of it that and able to talk to my family that I realized how much they were hurt by seeing me in so much pain.
Now imagine God, our father, the lover of our souls. Imagine the magnitude of the pain he feels when he sees us hurt, crying and disappointed. I think it took me many years to realize just how much he can relate and identify with what we feel. It was not until I started reading the bible that I realized that he just like us was angry, disappointed and in pain over many different events in his life.
I know realize that when I hurt so does he. But he is stronger than me and can carry the burdens I cannot. I give it to him.
Today as my grandmother take her last breathes of life and my family is mourning over her physical body I know that the Lord says, your trial does not surprise me but I am here for you when you need me, when you call me and when you cry out Oh Lord please help us and give us strength.
Rely on the rock, He is God alone and can do what we never expected with our pain and suffering. He is the greatest example of that. He has and will turn our mourning into singing.
I have listened to this song before but today it struck a different chord with me.
Do we realize how much the Lord hears us when we cry or when we rejoice?
I believe that sometimes we get so caught up in how we feel we forget that others suffer with us. I remember going through my period of depression and all I was concerned with was how hopeless I felt. It was not until I was fully out of it that and able to talk to my family that I realized how much they were hurt by seeing me in so much pain.
Now imagine God, our father, the lover of our souls. Imagine the magnitude of the pain he feels when he sees us hurt, crying and disappointed. I think it took me many years to realize just how much he can relate and identify with what we feel. It was not until I started reading the bible that I realized that he just like us was angry, disappointed and in pain over many different events in his life.
I know realize that when I hurt so does he. But he is stronger than me and can carry the burdens I cannot. I give it to him.
Today as my grandmother take her last breathes of life and my family is mourning over her physical body I know that the Lord says, your trial does not surprise me but I am here for you when you need me, when you call me and when you cry out Oh Lord please help us and give us strength.
Rely on the rock, He is God alone and can do what we never expected with our pain and suffering. He is the greatest example of that. He has and will turn our mourning into singing.
