My heart has been aching a lot this past week.
Though I have felt the weight of my own trials and miss my husband incredibly, my personal aches have only been part of it. This week I have seen, and heard, and felt, the aches of dear friends and loved ones. I have, in a way, just been an innocent bystander; yet truly, as a friend does for another, I have grieved with those who grieve. Wept with those who weep.
I have ached with those who ache.
One friend is watching her father pass away. Another is struggling with the weight and sadness of infertility. A fellow Army wife is saying goodbye to her Soldier. Another is dealing with unfaithfulness and forgiveness in her marriage.
My heart aches. And at many times this past week, I have given way to tears. I have wept in prayer before the Lord; asking Him to give strength, to show mercy, to cradle my friends in the His loving embrace.
There are times in life when the trials feel too much, when the weight feels far too heavy to bear. Yet this week, I was also reminded, as my book club met to discuss “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom, “there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.”
The words of Betsie Ten Boom rang hard and loud and clear. There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. These profound words spoken by one who knew what it was to suffer; who endured pain and heart ache unspeakable at the hand of the Nazi’s in German concentration camps. Yet she knew her Lord, and knew His strength.
There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.
These words have been a great comfort and I have clung to their wonderful truth, repeating them all week long. There is no heartache, that He cannot heal. There is no emptiness, that He cannot fill. There is no death, that He cannot make alive. There is no trial, through which He cannot sustain us.
Truly, there is no pit so deep, that He is not deeper still.
3 comments:
I really agree that no pit is too deep for God. Just remember Joseph; he went from the pit to the palace. Often times, God brings us out of that pit to a much better place than we were before.
Such a good reminder. The Bible Study I just started going to is using "Lives Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Last Friday we discussed how God is good. The world or our minds may tell us otherwise, when we go through difficult things we may think how can this be good? But God is good, in all circumstances and situations. He is always good. I've carried that in my heart all week.
I love this, Kathryn! Thanks for sharing that quote.
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