So many of my friends have had babies this year or are currently pregnant. Maybe one day if God wills I will also be one of those people who fall pregnant and miraculously get to take home a baby 9 months later! Seems like everyone who didn't have a baby last year is pregnant this year...it must be really tough for people who struggle to fall pregnant. All I know is that one must never put your hope in 'things', e.g. in having a child, in getting married, in your husband, wife, in money, social status, your job or in reaching certain goals, etc. I believe that is why some people never get over their disappointments and losses. Because they are dealing with an idol issue. When you put your hope and trust in The One who is solid as a rock, who never changes or disappoints, then you can deal with absolutely anything. That's what happens when you put your trust in the Creator rather than the creation.
I read my blog (everything up to day 53) over the last few weeks. What a hectic ride it was. Looking back, a few things are obvious.
- God was there all along. He never left us alone.
- God has given us supernatural strength to deal with everything.
- He was faithful in not only sustaining us, but teaching us and changing us to become more like His Son.
- He is in control. He is sovereign in everything. What a comforting thought, because we know He is also good and infinite in wisdom.
- Nothing on this earth can and should get us down because the hope and undeserved gift we have in Jesus overpowers it all.
These are the thoughts that bring me to tears. Yes, off course I miss Tabitha. But I am not sad when I think about her. God has given me a new heart.
I'll leave you with the following scriptures. Can you believe that the Bible can be so specific - that God talks through His Word in every single situation we may face? Run to His Word in your difficulties - Jesus the WORD made FLESH (John 1:14), is the answer.
Heb 12:4-11
You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,
“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
Psalm 119:75
I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are righteous,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
