It's easy to be angry with God when circumstances in life are difficult. I can admit that I've been very angry with God this week, seeing Isaiah suffer. Instead of being angry with God, I should be praying.
Matthew 7:7-13
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Renee we are praying for you and crying with you. It is easy to be angry. Anger is not wrong - we all have limited human capacity to understand all things GOD - and God understands our weaknesses and it is those times that he holds us even closer to Him. Love you!
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you are so great Renee.
ReplyDeleteI'm not religious like you but what you are saying effect on me to trust god more.
Its very difficult to believe that I can not see and I have lots of things which I don't understand of bible but now I pray every day and feel like I'm getting more religious.
I pray for Isaiah,you and all your family.
this made me think of you
you are having such a hard time but you are still working for him
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unfair.How can he forget your hard work for him,or forget the way you used to show your love for him-and still do -by helping his children?
Oh Renee, my heart breaks for you. It must be so hard seeing Isaiah sick and not have the power to fix it instantly. It is easy to be angry at God when His purposes are unclear and we don't know how He can make this for His good. When I was back in highschool and I had that car accident and ended up having multiple surgeries on my knee I remember being angry with God and asking, "Why me?" but in hindsight the entire experience led to some incredible prayers and moments with God where I could really feel He was there. My prayers were more genuine during those years than I have ever experienced. You have such a Godly attitude towards this, keep praying. We are all praying!
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For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Matthew 7:7-13 has made me cry many times. "All I see are stones and serpents, but if You say they are bread and fish, ok. I'll take it. And I'll stop asking why." Just take it, persevere, and keep the faith. --- But I've been reminded that we've been invited into wrestle with God. Jacob wrestled with God, and was given the name Israel, and for the rest of eternity, God's people would bear this name - He wrestles/struggles with God. I hope that's as incredibly freeing for you as it is for me. Wrestling with God is where His presence and the intimacy of our faith comes alive.
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Renee, praying with you and for you, Dave, & Isaiah. I was reading 2 Corinthians 4 a lot this week and thought you might find it encouraging too. ~ Jill
ReplyDeleteFor God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:6-18).
Hi - I've never met you but I stumbled upon your blog through the blog of a friend of my sister. I'm so sorry to hear about what your little boy is going through, and the heartache that it is for your whole family. I have been and will continue to pray for healing for your sweet little guy, and for strength, hope, and courage for you, your husband, and the rest of your family. I have two little boys probably about the same age as your two. I won't pretend to know what it is like to have a child who is facing such an illness, but my husband was diagnosed with cancer (non-hodgkins lymphoma) shortly before our second wedding anniversary in 2004 (in remission since 2005). In those first days after we found out, our friend/pastor came to the hospital to see us and talked about the story in John 11 where Jesus's friend Lazarus had just died. The story says that Jesus wept - probably alongside Lazarus' other loved ones. That story somehow brings me comfort knowing that Jesus grieves with us in times that seem unbearable - when things in this broken world reach into our lives. Even though God is good and he can and does bring about good things from horrible situations, those difficult times are still...difficult. I hope you find support from family & friends, and I will keep praying for your family.
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