I have heard this song before but today for some reason I listened to the first lyrics and it could not describe more accurately how I feel. Maybe some day I'll feel the same about the lyrics to the 2nd verse - actually when I think about it trust in the unseen is all that is keeping me going - If you haven't heard this song Never alone by Barlow Girl take a few minutes and listen to it
http://www.jango.com/music/BarlowGirl?l=0
I waited for you today
But you didn't show
No no
I needed you today
But where did you go
You told me to call
Said you'd be there
And though I haven't seen you
Are you still there?
(Chorus:)I cried out with no reply
And I can't feel you by my side
So I'll hold tight to what I know
You're here and I'm never alone
And though I cannot see you
And I can't explain why
Such a deep reassurance
You've placed in my life
We cannot separate
Cause you're part of me
And though you're invisible
I'll trust the unseen
(Chorus)
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Faith
I often wander how Paul can write through all his trials be joyful always. I don't like trials and yet it just seems like one thing after another. I've said before I feel like the arrows are coming too fast and lately I've not been sure my shield of faith is going to hold up. I've mentioned my friend here whose young daughter was diagnosed with leukemia. She has a caring bridge sight and she posted this about faith she read that really gave me a different perspective I so desperately needed. Its a good persepective for all of us so I share it....
From My Utmost for His Highest: "The Trial of Faith"
We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith--faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him the opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself.
God wants you to understand it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation.
I must have a faith that says "I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do." The highest and greatest expression of faith in the Bible is--"Though He may slay me, yet I will trust Him." Job 13:15.
From My Utmost for His Highest: "The Trial of Faith"
We have the idea that God rewards us for our faith, and it may be so in the initial stages. But we do not earn anything through faith--faith brings us into the right relationship with God and gives Him the opportunity to work. Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself.
God wants you to understand it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings. Faith by its very nature must be tested and tried. And the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character must be proven as trustworthy in our own minds. Faith being worked out into reality must experience times of unbroken isolation.
I must have a faith that says "I will remain true to God's character whatever He may do." The highest and greatest expression of faith in the Bible is--"Though He may slay me, yet I will trust Him." Job 13:15.
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