Beauty will rise....

listening to "Beauty Will Rise" by Steven Curtis Chapman.. I know its not his new album but this is usually how I do it.. a couple years after a album comes out.I buy it on the cheap in the markdown bin or on sale..
This one though I have had for a while and have actually refused to listen to it..
my reasoning..  I know where this album comes from.. the darkness of death.. the death of a child.. if there is a fear that I have it is that..that I will lose a child before I am gone..
I cannot imagine the pain.. even though I have seen it enough.. two of my siblings have lost children and my wife lost her brother shortly after we were married... It is hard enough from the outside.. I cannot imagine the pain...
 but listen to it i have.. and I'm listening to the title track right now... 

the thought has occurred to me.. GOD thinks much of Steven and his family.. He would not have given them a story as painful to tell if He wasn't sure that they would be able to live it out..
God promises that he will not give us more than we can bear.. He also promises that He will be beside us..
cliches.. I know.. but it is true..  He loves us so much... Even in the storm he is beside us..

none of us are immune to pain.. hurt. death..even after we become Christians.. Remember this..It is not that we will not have troubles, pain, death, hurt, people who lie about us, gossip and things that just aren't right  happen but the key is.. We know that everything that happens has a purpose.. either for us or for someone else  and the purpose is to promote the Kingdom of God.

see as Believers our life is not our own.. it is used by God to show who he is and what he is like.. WE are the reflection of GOD..

God said that he was like us in all respects that he knew what we went through.. He was like us..
Consider this  God the Father allowed his Son to die on the Cross.. So he understands the pain of losing a son/daughter.. it wasn't easy I'm sure.

and Yet if he didn't do this we would not be able to spend eternity with him..

Its not always in the easy things that we see God.. It is in the Hard things..

God find me faithful to accept the hard things..even when I don't understand..

For you are GOD and i am not.