We humans are funny!
First, we will chase after the wind more than we will chase after the Maker of that wind then blame that very same Maker for not being fulfilled!
Sex, love of money, power, status, alcohol and drugs can only bring temporary happiness, while the destruction they leave in their wake simply isn’t worth it! No matter the addiction, it’s the same monster just wearing a different outfit. I’ve learned the hard way as I’ve put on my tennis shoes and chased the wind with the best of them and still do at times.
If that’s not enough, we rarely kiss the waves. Yet, we won’t hesitate to curse the very waves that throw us on God. We will treat the shore 🌊 as if it’s our only hope . . . Our only refuge. When the truth is where the waves take us is!
On the Rock.
I no longer curse the waves, but praise the Keeper for sending them!
The waves, the furnace, the storms are all meant not to destroy us, but to refine. Akin to God taking off our training wheels on our Bicycle of Faith not hoping we will wreck, but just like our parents cheering us on as we succeed!
It took me 35 years to learn— If He puts me in the furnace, or allows me to be placed in the flames, to embrace the warmth. There are MANY reasons He allows heartbreaks, losses, disappointments and tragedies, but none is greater than whatever the ‘IT’ is to draw us closer to our Savior!
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming I don’t sometimes let my emotions get the best of me and I’m not saying circumstances can’t temporarily cause me to lose focus because, after all, we are only human. But man, I praise the KinG for how much I’ve grown in both areas. I used to FALL APART when a girlfriend broke up with me. Now, I go through pretty serious health issues with a smile, trust and GRATITUDE!
Perspective is EVERYTHING and the biggest thing I’ve learned is it’s all designed to make us stronger, more reliant on His glorious Presence and dependent on Him and Grace and as a tool for growth, maturity and learning contentment in all ways and in all things.
I know the waves are rough and EVERY storm is a brutal place. It feels like it will NEVER stop raining! I know all about crying invisible tears where on the outside you look fine, but inside you’re suffocating! I know what its like to feel hopeLESS. I know what it feels like to not want to go on. I know what it feels like to be drowning and nobody knows it but you. 😢
But the waves are not our enemy, but a friend who carries us down rough roads, so we can land in the only place we are safe— on the Rock!
There is no greater place we can be no matter how big the waves were for us to get there!
+Hope Abounds+
JMB
Psalm 89:9
You rule the swelling of the sea;
When its waves rise, You still them.
