Love Hurts
My one year old daughter, Miss Ashton as Gammy affectionately calls her, has been battling a stuffy nose for the past few weeks. This up and down, Topsy Turvy Michigan weather has sent her nasal passages awry. Daily I have to pin her down and suction out her nose with an aspirator as she screams, kicks, flails, and cries her little heart out. It breaks my heart into pieces inflicting discomfort and maybe even pain on her, but I have to do it. It is what is best for her. If I don't, something worse could happen, like an ear infection. She doesn't understand that though. She doesn't see that she must go through that momentary "hell" in order to keep her safe and healthy.
Don't we do the same thing as adults with God? Sometimes it seems like we are pinned down in pain and discomfort asking God "Why are you doing this to me?" tears streaming down our faces. We pray for it to stop, and we don't understand why God would let such bad things happen to us? Have we done something wrong? Is He mad at us? Are we being punished? Where is He in our time of need?
Just as I am doing what I know is best for Ashton, God does what He knows is best for us. Even if it means some pain and discomfort in the mean time. We get so caught up in the little blip on the grand scale of eternity that is our life, and the even more microscopic blip that is this day or week or month, that we often fail to see the bigger picture. I know that there have been so many times in my life that I have cried out "WHY GOD? WHY?" Looking back, hind sight is 20/20. Knowing where it has gotten me, what was accomplished, what I learned, and even what I've brought to other peoples lives through my own personal pain and discomfort, I see it. I get the big picture, after the fact at least.
I pray that we can stop living for our own glory and live for His. That we can understand that sometimes we need to be "held down and tortured" to achieve what His plan for us is. We need to remember that these are not spankings, but growing pains. And even if we don't understand now, we need to trust in Him, that He has a plan, because He ALWAYS does.
Miss Ashton may hate me while I aspirate her little nose, but when it's over, and she takes a deep breath through her freshly unclogged nostrils, she knows why I had to do it.
"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
In Christ's love,
Kelly
Don't we do the same thing as adults with God? Sometimes it seems like we are pinned down in pain and discomfort asking God "Why are you doing this to me?" tears streaming down our faces. We pray for it to stop, and we don't understand why God would let such bad things happen to us? Have we done something wrong? Is He mad at us? Are we being punished? Where is He in our time of need?
Just as I am doing what I know is best for Ashton, God does what He knows is best for us. Even if it means some pain and discomfort in the mean time. We get so caught up in the little blip on the grand scale of eternity that is our life, and the even more microscopic blip that is this day or week or month, that we often fail to see the bigger picture. I know that there have been so many times in my life that I have cried out "WHY GOD? WHY?" Looking back, hind sight is 20/20. Knowing where it has gotten me, what was accomplished, what I learned, and even what I've brought to other peoples lives through my own personal pain and discomfort, I see it. I get the big picture, after the fact at least.
I pray that we can stop living for our own glory and live for His. That we can understand that sometimes we need to be "held down and tortured" to achieve what His plan for us is. We need to remember that these are not spankings, but growing pains. And even if we don't understand now, we need to trust in Him, that He has a plan, because He ALWAYS does.
Miss Ashton may hate me while I aspirate her little nose, but when it's over, and she takes a deep breath through her freshly unclogged nostrils, she knows why I had to do it.
"For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
In Christ's love,
Kelly
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