Posted by jan
on December 2, 2007, 1:44 pm, in reply to "Trust, Love, Prayer, & Teaching"
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Thank you for sharing this, Jo. I just was talking to my friend from high school whose 26 yr old son was killed a few weeks ago. She was saying how angry she is at God right now... and I told her that being angry is normal, and that she will have to wrestle with God through this season of her life, as we all do. Grieving the loss of a child is exhausting work, and excruciatingly painful, but we MUST WORK at it, no matter what. The pain, the doubts, the questions, the loneliness--NONE of it goes away magically on its on. Isaiah 50:7 "Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame."
I personally had to work on learning to trust God again after Lora was so suddenly ripped from our lives. It took work. It took lots of angry shouts and accusations and sobbing tears all directed to the Lord on many late nights--all while I continued to take one day at a time, and continued to claim the name of Christ.
Press on, press through, my sisters-in-grief. And one day you, too, will be able to look back on this part of the journey and finally "see" with your spiritual eyes how and where the Lord carried you, spoke to you, when you didn't recognize it as such.
I despaired that I would never again really hear the voice of the Lord like I once did... I have discovered even recently that wasn't the case, but for many years I felt as though I was wandering through a dry desert. Only my determination ("setting my face like flint") kept me moving forward, and my previous experiences with God "preached" to my bewildered heart to hold on.
Determine to not let satan have the victory in your life, no matter how painful, how lonely, how tired you may feel. Choose--set your faces like flint, ladies.
~ jan
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