During our family vacation to the coast last week, I took a moment or two to sit and look out over the vast beauty of the ocean. I watched how each wave came crashing up on the shore and rolled back out. If I close my eyes now, I can still hear the sounds echoing in my head…the waves, the sea gulls, the children laughing, people talking…I thought, Lord, this is the life. All was peaceful, life was good and pleasant.
The morning we were to pack up and leave to come back home, I awoke to find one of our dogs had gotten out and had been missing since the night before. I dreaded having to go in and wake my daughter to such news…after all, this was her baby.
News like that can hit you like a ton of bricks. It knocked the wind out of me for a moment but then the peace of God flooded my soul. For many years I struggled with worry. It consumed me. I was always trying to figure things out, or better yet, fix things for God instead of allowing God to be in control and fix them for me. Oh how far from Job was I…for I often thought of all Job had to endure. He was hit with one thing after another, over and over again. He lost his herds, his health, his riches, his friends…even his family, yet, the Word tells us, in all of his suffering he didn’t sin against God.
Much like Job, God restored to us what we had lost. Our precious dog had been found and taken in and kept safe. It took work on the part of our family with whom she had been left with to find her, but she was found. God directed them to the place she was being kept…Though we had been sad…we placed our trust in God. God doesn’t promise us a life without trials…He promises to make a way through it all!
“Still I will rejoice in the God of my salvation!” That was the mindset I chose to have.
Habakkuk 3
17 For even if the fig tree doesn’t blossom, and no fruit is on the vines, even if the olive tree fails to produce, and the fields yield no food at all, even if the sheep vanish from the sheep pen, and there are no cows in the stalls; 18 still, I will rejoice in ADONAI, I will take joy in the God of my salvation. 19 ELOHIM Adonai is my strength! He makes me swift and sure-footed as a deer and enables me to stride over my high places.
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