I'm Still Here...

It has been a while since I have posted anything. Life has been super hectic here lately, so I just haven't taken the time to blog. But I do want to leave you with a quick little something. Another blogger that I read posted the lyrics to the song "Blessings" by Laura Story. I have to say this song is great. It really speaks to how great God is. That while we are his children, we are not promised all sunshine and happy days. That sometimes He allows trials to come into our lives to turn our hearts and minds to Him. To remind us what is really important in this life, and surprise, surprise...it's not us! It's our Father who is Holy above all else!

Anyways, here is the youtube video and below are the lyrics.

We pray for blessings, we pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while You hear each spoken need
Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears?
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near?

What if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise?
We pray for wisdom, Your voice to hear
We cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

And all the while You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near?

And what if trials of this life
Are Your mercies in disguise?
When friends betray us, when darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home
It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears?
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You're near?

What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst
This world can't satisfy?

And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise?

Credits :
songwriters: story, laura mixon
© new spring publishing;new spring publishing
lyrics from: http://www.xtralyrics.com/

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.  But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:8-10

Paul had been given a thorn in his side, a messenger of Satan to torment him when this verse takes place. Paul pleaded with the Lord to remove his suffering, to remove that thorn from his side. And you see the answer that the Lord gave him. Sometimes it helps to remember that Jesus' grace is sufficient for us all. That He is all that we need while we wait for Him to remove the thorns out of our lives.

And speaking of thorns in our flesh...Happy TAX DAY everyone!! {enter sarcasm here}