John 5:14 says, "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us."
True! Here I have tried to recreate a picture of what I see as I sit in my chair and read my bible out loud and I have seen it is true just as written in Psalm 66:17-20 - "I cried out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened; but God has surely listened and has heard my prayer. Praise be to God, who has not rejected my prayer or withheld his love from me!"
Even though at times it seemed I walked alone, I knew I was not. Even though at times I reached out to others to what ... miserate (?) for there was not any co-miserating as often the trials I endured had not touched them. They could not empathize with my plight. No they never had a family member that could say that kind of thing. No they never could imagine a parent not standing up for them. No the thought of being ostracized for believing in Jesus was foreign to them. No they never lost anyone close to them. So I talked to Jesus. He understood. He had been through it. He assured me that yes I was loved. Yes God was proud of me. And even though all fall short of the glory of the Father, He still loves them all very much.
In the back of my thoughts were or was it deep in my heart that "maybe someday someone will get IT" for what we sow so shall we reap kind of thinking tinged with a little "what goes around comes around' thrown in I fancied the thoughts in my lesser days. But as always God knows what He is doing and yes as always "God I do trust you! If "they" understood the misery I am in then I would be wasting our own one on one air time Father. I would not know you now as I do.
Going through the trials has been my booster step up onto His lap and into His mercy. And now that I know this and "get" it, I am witnessing those who had seemed to have skated troubles are now going through it. And you know what? I feel for them. I can commiserate with them legitimately. I can point them through the shortcuts and straight on to Jesus bypassing the scenic routes. I care about them.
Does it help to see them suffer and learn? No. Will I say "I told you so!" Absolutely not. Will I take their calls only at my convenience or whenever God says? For it is at Gods convenience that I live to serve.
I will trust in the Lord always as The LORD is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.”
-Psalm 28:7
See ya on the other side then.
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