Inspiration
If you hadn’t gone through
Be still and know that I am God... Psalm 46:10
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f you hadn’t gone through what you’ve been through, you
wouldn’t know God like you do.
You wouldn’t know what it meant to have his presence near
you, comforting you, telling you that you can make it through.
That this too will pass. That trouble doesn’t always last.
If you hadn’t been sick, you wouldn’t know that God can heal
you.
That He is God. That He is real. That He does feel what we
feel. If your heart was never broken, you wouldn’t know that He
is near the broken-hearted and He binds up their wounds.
If you hadn’t gone through, you wouldn’t know that His Word
is true.
If you never lacked, you wouldn’t know that He will supply. If
you always had the answers and never had to wonder “Why” you
wouldn’t know that My God will provide.
If you never shed a tear, you wouldn’t know that God can dry
your weeping eyes.
If you never were rejected and betrayed, you wouldn’t know
what it feels to be accepted and unconditionally loved with an
unfailing love from your Heavenly Father above.
If you were always able to make ends, would you depend on the
Giver of every good and perfect gift? Would you trust Him even
when you cannot see, believing that He wants what’s best for me?
To make it “to” you’ve got to go “through.”
Everybody taking about “destiny” and “prosperity”, but nobody wants to go “through” because it’s scary. No one wants to
feel the pain, the agony. To go “through,” I have to get out of
me. I have to trust God completely. For my life, my future, my
family.
Can you say I trust you Jesus with my dreams?
I trust you God with my deepest desires?
I trust that you mean the best for me
Even when I can't see
The road you have me on
I trust that you are leading, guiding, directing
When my hope is gone
When my dreams have dried up like a raisin in the sun?
Can I say
Let your will be done?
Can I believe you really have a plan for me?
Even when I can't see
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What you're doing
Directing, Orchestrating
Preparing?
Why? Why? Why is pain and suffering your recipe for destiny?
And you gently, simply say,
“Trust me.”
If you hadn’t gone through what you’ve been through, you
wouldn’t pray like you do.
It’s the going “through” that’s going to make you.
Make you stronger.
Make you depend on God.
Make you pray.
Make you humble.
If you didn’t know pain, loss and disappointments, you wouldn’t
have known in such a real way God’s peace, power and presence.
If you hadn’t gone through what you went through, you wouldn’t be able to help someone else make it through.
To comfort others with the same comfort that you have been
comforted with.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so
that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive
from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also
our comfort abounds through Christ. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5
Choose to be better. Not bitter. Choose to let the pain draw you
nearer. Choose to forgive and let God heal you. Know that trouble
doesn’t last always and eventually this too will be history, but there
is eternity. Praise him anyhow because He’s worthy.
Choose to live each day believing in God’s Word and that His
love, mercy and grace will help you make it through.
Know that while you’re going through, God has got you.