Is God good, even when the wait can be painful? In my opinion, yes.
Are
you a complainer? Do you think you have it bad? Sometimes I am so
ashamed at my behavior in the small problems, that I think are so big.
Even when no one else may hear me, He does. What a wonderful,
merciful, unconditional loving Savior we have.
I
really need to think more before I speak. I was so glad that I was
alone in my car the other day when I lost it with my language. I knew
that God heard me. It was over something so stupid; I had to wait 2
hours before seeing the doctor. I wasn't thinking at the time how
thankful I should be that I could at least see the doctor, when some
people can't even do that. Sometimes I think I have it so bad, and then
I hear or see someone who has really got it so much worse. God lets me
know it too, and I thank Him that He treats me so gently. Sometimes I
think, that if God could reach down with His heavenly hand, He would
wash my mouth out with a bar of soap. I am so ashamed sometimes of the
things I complain about in my pathetic humanness. They certainly don't
glorify my Savior.
I read in Psalms 103:10 that, "[He] does not treat us as our sins deserve..." Wow. God is good and fair. Can you imagine if He treated us as our sins deserve?
As
I listened to this song, I couldn't help but have a special person on
my mind who is terminally ill, and told there is no cure. Now that is
something to complain about, but yet he shows such signs of God's
strength. He was also given a time frame of living. He has a wife, and 3
small children who would be left behind. I can't even imagine that, or
how I would be in the waiting time of suffering. Would I say, "God this
isn't fair." Would my life glorify God? Would I still be a good witness
for Him? Would my family be mad at God, or would their lives continue to
glorify God?
We
are all going to die, we just don't know how, or when. I thank God for
my life, and the crosses He chose for me so far along this journey with
Him. I don't know what's around the corner of my life, and either do
you. But I know He has been there for me, and I could only hope you have
Jesus too.
As
I continue to pray for Matt, and his family, I am reminded in the many
ways how God is glorified. Yes... even in illness, suffering, and
sometimes death. Even in what we think is unfair.
I am so thankful for salvation through Jesus Christ. That my sins past, present and future are forgiven. Ephesians 2:4,
I thank Him that He is "rich in mercy, and made us alive with Christ."
because of Jesus, and only because of Jesus and His death for us on the
cross, we are forgiven.
Jesus
glorified His Father in life, and death. Even as brutal, and ugly as
His suffering was, Jesus always counted on the power of praying to His
Father to give Him strength and peace. Do you think the death of Jesus
was fair? I don't, but it was the will of His Father, and Jesus followed
in every step of obedience while He waited to go back home.
The
words that really get to my heart that Jesus said is, "Father forgive
them for they know not what they do." Also when he says "don't cry for
me, cry for yourselves and your children," (Luke 23:28). Jesus
knew what this world holds for us. I thank God this is not the end, and
certainly not our everlasting home if you have accepted Jesus as your
Savior.
Jesus' life on earth was short, and with the purpose of saving us from our
sin. It was no vacation to Him. The only time of rest Jesus got, was
when He went to His quiet place to pray, and be with His Father.
When
I think of Jesus and His life on earth, serving His Father, worshiping
His Father, praising His Father, even though He knew how He was going to
suffer and die, I look in TOTAL AMAZEMENT! Oh how He glorified His
Father in life and His suffering.
Matt, who
is terminally ill, is doing the same. Every post I read of his, I read
with amazement on his words of wisdom, even in his illness, he is
still glorifying God.
We
all are still praying, and hoping for that miracle, because nothing is
over until God says, "it is finished." But while he is waiting, he is
not fainting, he is running the race even while he waits.
I can only pray that when my time comes, I will glorify God as well.
We may not understand things this side of heaven, but God is STILL GOOD!
Kim
Matt Weeks' blog: caringbridge. org
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