Picking up the Pieces
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“Our Lord, You Always do Right” (Psalm 119:137-160 (CEV).
As a woman who actively seeks to obey God, there have been confusing times when I read these words and wonder with a breaking heart feeling like the wind has been knocked out of me. It goes on to say that “your decisions are fair”.
How can I believe these truths when humans disappoint or hurt us deeply? How do I pick myself up and put one foot in front of the other? How is it that we are left grabbing our hearts trying to breathe? How can I understand that the Lord ‘who always does right’ watches me as I am left crumpled and defeated? It doesn’t feel it was a right decision.
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I didn’t sign up to be a single mom or all the many facets that it encompasses. I have a responsibility to show my girls how I handle any trial. I believe in my heart, it is ok to let them see me having an aerobic work-out in my heart, but nevertheless moving ahead and coming through on the other side. Our pastor challenged us to ‘not waste a trial’. I pray I don’t waste a trial believing that God is the one who does right and makes decisions never thought possible. He takes the pain and breathlessness, hugs me and says, “Just walk with Me, I know what I am doing. Do you trust me, Linda? Read my promises.” Not only does King David say that the Lord does right, he continues by saying that “your teachings are true and will last forever.” Bottom line, earthly things don’t last and life is short so don’t waste a trial and grow, grow, grow!
How do I get from point A to that next alphabet? What is my process? For me, I was fully engaged in my problem and took my eyes off the truth that God’s ways are true, He does right, and His decisions are fair. People hurt our hearts. What am I going to do with a situation? What outcome can I pursue that is God-honoring that allows Him to take my trial, or a broken heart, and help me move to the next challenge? I read the heartfelt cries of some of the journeys of those like the Psalmist David and the Apostle Peter whose hearts were desperately broken. This is not a new journey.
Bottom line, through this process the answer has been to grieve, cry, and then grieve some more. Engage in letting God hear your heart and then in quietness listen for Him to speak. He does!!! Scripture is the vitamin to gain health. We have to actively make a choice. Then at just the right moment, thank God for His amazing love, His constant faithfulness, and His promises. It means taking a conscious step forward asking for the next step. The Psalmist then says, “I am eager to learn all that you want me to do; help me to understand more and more”. That’s when the adventure begins my dear friends!~ God gives us a new strength, a new respect for ourselves, and a new journey never thought possible.
Life isn’t about not getting trials…that is a given, but it is how we fair with the trial. Give yourself time. God is riding above the heavy waters with us and sitting beside us. “Be my Defender and Protector”. He is all that and more!
Questions: Do you believe the statement “Our Lord, You Always do Right” (Psalm 119:137-160)? How are you handling pain in your life?
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i guess all of you have so much more faith than i. i believe these truths in my head but my heart hurts often and i can’t get past it. if what has hurt me wouldn’t matter so much to me, i could get past it but i can’t seem to change what matters to me. God has allowed several hard trials which i know is life but what He continues to say ‘no’ to hurts the most. i want to change my desires since it seems i will never get a yes’. i just can’t seem to get there. how do you change the desires of your heart?
My sorrow is fresh this morning as I sit at my desk not wanting to be here at work, my 32 year old son has gone back to jail. He was released in April from prison and all the hopes we had for him seem so far away. I cannot seem to keep the tears from falling, my heart aches and although I know that Jesus saved him by taking him again, before he hurt someone or someone hurt him, I still hurt. He is 32 years old and this has been going on for 15 years. I finally realized this time that he has been using Meth, I never wanted to believe it because he is physically fit and exercised everyday and watched what he ate and now it has all hit me like a bad dream. I know My Lord always does right, I just need to move out of the way and allow Him to do His mighty work in my sons life and mine.
I am so in logve with God, everytime I get on here to read these articles they breathe life into me and remind me that He is right here by my side, holding me and whispering, Keep going Corinne! The only thing I feel like I have ever idolized in my life is another man. I put making him happy and putting my God on the line and saying I got this, You have more important things to do but truthfully, He doesn’t. He whispers to me that I am His wonderfully and beautifully made Daughter and He wants the best for me. I ask Him to please give me the strength I need to continue working towards the dreams He has placed in my heart and please help me to surrender my heart each and everyday so that He may search me and lead me!! Thank you to all the people God has breathed advice, love and wisdom into because He has blessed you to help people like me keep persevering!!
My heart was desperately broken 10 years ago by my then husband after 22 years of marriage and three sons. The pain was unbearable and I did not understand my God. Your email this morning was just what I needed – I still want to believe that “Our Lord, You Always do Right”
Dear heavenly father,
First of all I want to ask You Lord to bless my sister Linda in what she is, does in the life that You have given to her.
I also want to say that in my life I fully depend on You oh Lord in all areas of my life that You have given to me. When I have a migrain I have learned to go to You to deliver me from the infliction or the situation that I am in.ex. when at work on the phones and the system goes down that with my prayer you bring it back to working.
I could have been the one writing this devotional. I wonder some of the same things. When I decide to relax in my trials, and give them to God, then a gentle peace comes over me. I run to my morning devotionals here, and then the wicked ways of the world go away, or I should say my WALK makes “more sense”. I’m here to give God glory; it’s not about me. I know every single trial I’ve had up to this very minute has made me stronger. I’m really hard on myself when I allow the world to “get to me”. I know that when given (pain & sorrow) to the Lord, it all goes away. He gives me the tools I need…I praise Him for that. Thanks for sharing Linda; I could really relate to this one. I give my everything to our Holy Lord, and He always does “Right”. Amen; I do believe this, and I stand tall today in my walk with Him.