thank you Lord for the many gifts you've given me. thank you for my beautiful daughter who brings me joy beyond recognition. thank you for a husband who unconditionally loves me. thank you for your continual patience and forgiveness as i can't seem to grasp the depth of your love. thank you for our health, for our family, for the things i take for granted. thank you Lord. i lift up my hands and sing praises to you alone.
but why do i feel as though my God and i have the similar communication struggles? the Lord God is quite beyond any husband on this earth. he always has time to hear and listen. he is God?! this is me yet again *trying to shove God into my tiny understandable box. (*note the 'trying' part.)
amen.
he will quiet you with his love. zephaniah 3:17
do you ever feel like you are not being heard? frequently i have conversations with my husband that often include me and myself...in other words - he's not completely hearing me. oh how we women know the importance of a silent room filled with zero distraction, when important talks are needed. joking aside, i adore my husband and we work on communication like everybody else.
but why do i feel as though my God and i have the similar communication struggles? the Lord God is quite beyond any husband on this earth. he always has time to hear and listen. he is God?! this is me yet again *trying to shove God into my tiny understandable box. (*note the 'trying' part.)
God's tender heart must often ache listening to our sad, complaining cries.Our
weak, impatient hearts cry out because we fail to see through ourtear-blinded,
shortsighted eyes that is for our own sakes that He doesnot answer at all
or that He answers in a way we believe is less thanthe best. In fact, the
silences of Jesus are as eloquent as His words andmay be a sign not of His
disapproval but of His approval and His way ofproviding a deeper blessing for
you. ~L.B Cowman
the Giver seems to be with holding his blessings these days. which is testing me beyond sanity. i must choose every moment, even now.
choose to learn the mystery of his silence or fall apart in my despair.choose to praise in the storms or sink in the thrashing waves.
choose to better love and know this always listening Father or become angry and doubting
despite the silence - the vast unknown - the confronting misery..."Jesus did not answer a word." (Matt.15:23), i will press on. believing in a deeper blessing. today i choose believing my God loves me enough to be silent.
what do you choose?
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