Today is one year. Three hundred, sixty-five days since we witnessed the move of the Lord in the life of someone our family loves dearly, which means He answered our prayers and has moved in our lives. It was an emotional journey that has taught us much about the Lord and His faithfulness.
Our church worship team sings a song that has two verses, "He will bring joy to all your sorrows" and "He will make a way where there is no way." This song was sang in praise to the Lord one year ago, yesterday, as we were interceding for the very life of our loved one. It was His will that we would be faithful and pray without ceasing and fast faithfully, and it was ultimately His will to answer our prayer as He saw fit in a way we could never have imagined. The tough part of the journey was ultimately submitting graciously to the Lord's will, whatever that would be, and accepting what He wants and brings to us as well as those we love. It's hard when you think you know what the right thing is but you are uncertain what the story is that the Lord is writing in your life as well as someone else's. It's hard when you look at the circumstances around you and they look very bleak or flat out impossible. It's hard when you hear the words of those that are in a worldly authority speak a dark view. This was a time for us when we were sitting in a boat and we asked for the impossible - we asked for the Lord to allow us to walk on water. To do that, you can't look at the waves around you, the sharks under you. You can't listen to the wind screaming in your ears, pushing you to sit back down. You have to keep your eyes on the Lord at all times, without giving up hope or faith. What a hard lesson to learn and walk through.
Isaiah 55:8-9
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways," declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."
A year ago yesterday, I made preparations to lose someone I loved very dearly. I did so because if that was the Lord's will for all of us, though it would hurt and our hearts would bleed, I knew the Lord is the only one who could still bring us through and heal those wounds in us. I knew no experience in our lives would be wasted "and we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28) So whatever His thoughts, His ways, they are always for our good. This is a truth we held to and we were prepared with vulnerable hearts to receive what the Lord knew was right for all the people involved. Your will, Lord, not ours. Yet we hope and pray and watch.
Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You If I would declare and speak of them, they would be too numerous to count. Psalm 40:5
What is especially glorious is when you pray for the Lord's intervention and not only does He bring what you are asking for, but He brings it in a way that you could never have imagined. And to first hand witness a heavenly sent, how-did-that-happen miracle with our very own eyes! To say God is just so good is a grand understatement!
We will not conceal them from their children,But tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done. Psalm 78:4
For You, O LORD, have made me glad by what You have done,I will sing for joy at the works of Your hands. Psalm 92:4
And let them know that this is Your hand; You, LORD, have done it. Psalm 109:27
That they may see and recognize, and consider and gain insight as well, that the hand of the LORD has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it. Isaiah 41:20
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