I am on a roller coaster of emotions. I am up soaring up, then plummeting down, going through loops and tunnels…and wondering when the ride will come to that sudden, chest pounding stop.
What I am going through is a great trial, a true personal tragedy. You don’t need my specifics, but I’m sure you can relate. We’ve all been there; we’ve all been through hardships, been hurt by someone.
But there is hope. I know right now my pain and agony seems endless. I cry out to God like David did when he wrote those depressing, heart-wrenching Psalms. But I trust and have faith that while this trial is painful now—GOOD things will come from this. GOOD things will come again.
Already this trial has shaped me and grown me. Already my relationships have become closer. I can already see the fruit of this turmoil.
There is a favorite scripture of mine that has held my hand through many a situations, and it rings even clearer through this hard time…
“ 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” James 1: 2-4
Perseverance— that’s what this is all about. It’s about getting through each plummeting fall and rising again. Building enough speed to make it through the falls, so you may have speed left over to rise to the top again.
Be encouraged my friends, and be encouraged my heart and soul!
“…Weeping may last for the night, but joy is coming in the morning.” Psalm 30:5
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