Sometimes when life is hard, I feel unseen
Sometimes when I pray, I feel unheard
Sometimes I brazenly want to shake my fist at the sky or stomp my feet in a good ol’ fashioned tantrum
And then God speaks: Who do you say that I am, Amy…
He’s never indifferent
He’s never uncaring
He’s always responsive
He is the Lord.
When God’s actions look different from what I would have hoped for- it has nothing to do with Him failing me- and everything to do with His sovereignty. His sovereignty is about His strength, in which there’s no room for weakness. His sovereignty has everything to do with His passionate love for me, and nothing to do with indifference.
My perspective is so limited. My desires so tainted… but because He is sovereign, I can rest in assurance that everything God does, or does not do- is really about the depths of His love for me. A love that extends so much deeper, so much farther, so much wider… than I could ever comprehend.
I love honesty like this. It makes me realize I’m not alone when those same kinds of thoughts blow through me, too, like leaves in the wind.
Thanks Lisa… and I like the way you described it- how thoughts can blow through us.
I love the incomprehensiblity of our Lord all mixed up with the complete abandon with which he loves us and woos us to his side.
never indifferent
always responsive…
I think I need to think and pray about those.