The Storm {When God hurts our feelings}

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The Storm {When God hurts our feelings}

July 11, 2011 by myrahough

It looks dark and gloomy all around. The wind is fierce causing the trees to sway. Leaves blowing all over. Thunder & lighnting strike and startle you…

Electricity goes out… it is dark. Then suddenly you remember God and you pray… power comes back up… it is still dark and gloomy outside, but you can now see inside your house. A reminder… He is still here. He can still provide light. The light may be limited… but you have light… hope.

It is scary. The sounds… the wind… very scary… but God is there.

He is here.

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Storms. We can’t avoid them. Life is full of them.

Today a relative got hit hard with a storm… cancer. It’s gloomy. It’s windy. It’s very dark.

But the emergency lights are up and going strong. God is with her.

Many wonder how one can keep trusting in God after a hit like this…

I only wonder how can you not?

We need God… she needs God.

Her doctors need God.

The family needs God.

And you know what? God is sitting right by her side.

Really, He is.

We don’t know what His healing plan is for Lisa. We don’t know what His reasons are for writing this specific chapter in her book of life. We may never know.

But what we do know is that He is in control. He knows exactly what He is doing. We may not agree. We may not like it. But we need to lean on Him and trust Him.

He will understand if you feel angry at Him at times. He can take the yells if you need to get it out of your system. Really, He can. Just as long as after you let Him know that you do feel hurt… you also let Him know that you still need Him and you still want Him.

We need to trust Him, even when we are afraid, even when we don’t understand. Because He is not asking us to thank Him for the circumstance, He only wants us to focus on what He is doing in our life in the midst of that circumstance.