God is our Father

The other day while in prayer crying out to God my husband walked in the room saw my tears and reached out to comfort me. I guess He sensed that my tears were about more than the storm of our daughter’s hospitalization. I struggled to put in words what my heart was unwilling to speak. Finally I as able to verbalize that yes, God is faithful and was with us throughout the process and yes God did foretell and uphold each and every promise. Yet, my tears continued. I confessed I cried not because the procedure was unsuccessful but because I didn’t want her to need any procedure and I didn’t and don’t want her to suffer or endure any hardships. Ever!

Most of you will probably agree with me that we do not want our loves ones to suffer. We don’t want our love ones to struggle and we certainly don’t want them to endure anything that we can’t control.

Immediately I heard the Words of God. “Listen, my son, hearken unto my voice”. I was inundated with the promises and commands of God flooding my soul. And for one brief and fleeting moment I sensed the will of God for me and all His people. He impressed the longing of His Spirit for His people within me. I knew that if I was struggling to cope with the experience of a planned surgery to improve the life of our daughter yet knowing all the dangers thereof, God’s will in commanding us to walk aright and His angst when we don’t is... well too much for me to comprehend other than for the moment. Then I heard Him say, if you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father which is in heaven give good things unto those that ask.

We have two other children. I know how I feel when one is behaving in a manner that may cause harm. I am always attempting to direct all of our children away from risk and toward joy and peace. I know without any doubt that each and every Word God has spoken to us is for our well being. I believe that He does not withhold any good thing from us. I think we fail to believe that whatever the thing is that we want at the time will somehow work out different than what He has forewarned. Just as our children think that no harm will come to them. Until it does!

This is my prayer for today: Let us all as one man look unto God our Father today with unison of heart and cry out “Abba”! Let us look to God who loves us and cherishes us and whom has made every provision for us and acknowledge that His Ways and thoughts are higher than our own and they are good.