Before you start kindergarten, you have to have
immunizations; i.e. SHOTS! It makes perfect sense to us because we want all our
children safe from suffering some horrible disease.
But for the small four-year-old, all they really know is
that their beloved parent is holding them down so that some stranger can
physically hurt them with a most painful needle. Mom? Dad? Eyes filled with
tears and sometimes screams. Horror. Anger. Disbelief. How could this be happening?
And why is my usually caring, protecting parent allowing this?
A child getting immunization shots will not be comforted by a
lengthy explanation of its future benefits. Full understanding of a suffering
will not bring comfort. Loving arms wrapped around you bring comfort. A gentle
rocking back and forth. A hand brushing hair away from your face. A kiss on the
forehead. Comfort.
Do you feel like you’re being held down in place and like
your loving Father is the One holding you down to make you go through the pain?
Are you suffering through a change in diet because the doctor says you have
diabetes? Are you unable to drive your car anymore? Are you in the midst of incredible sadness? Or unending stress? Eyes
filled with tears and sometimes screams. Horror. Anger. Disbelief. How could this
be happening? And why is my usually caring, protecting Parent allowing this? Do
you look up to heaven and say, “Father God, I don’t understand?
It is hard to accept that there is a good reason for
suffering if I personally can’t think of one…
Yet, God, my maker, knows better about my life than I do.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways,” declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” – Is.
55:8-9
Like my mom with me in the doctor’s office those many years
ago, God’s thoughts and ways are greater than mine. He can see farther than I
can.
Knowing the character of God can bring comfort in these
trying / crying times.
He is ever-present.
He is all-knowing.
He is faithful.
He is all-wise.
He knows what He’s
doing.
He can be trusted.
He will see you
through.
He will capture each
tear in a bottle.
Nothing is beyond His
reach, His capacity, His authority.
So, like the familiar phrase found on one of those
Pass-It-On cards:
Don’t tell God how
big your problems are,
Tell your problems how big your God is!
- God is forever faithful. He will see you through.
- Trust in the Lord and lean not on your own understanding…
- May the Lord be your comfort today.
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