“It was directed at God, but it was also frenzied. It was expectant, but also clingy. It brought me to Him, but also for an immediate answer.” I feel this to my core… I try to pray with confident expectation, waiting on God …. Sometimes though, no matter how hard I try, I simply can’t stay there. I continue to try.
I can relate! Well, and I do wonder about not even praying with that "confident expecation" ... but just letting that prayer go. Gulp. Turning in a different direction from that prayer and letting it die a bit ... to see what God does.
Sara, I’m living in this too. Such heart ache. In this season, grief feels like crawling in a cloud of smoke trusting God to lead through the fire to safety.
God is doing a similar work in me through difficult circumstances. When I pop off, "Let's just trust and see where He leads," or "I don't know how, but it's gonna be ok," it's so counter to my human flesh. I am always able to see the bad and expect the worst. Yet, here, now, even when I can still kind of envision how awful it might be, I also see Him, with us, in it, and there's peace.
It's a gift I can't even describe as well as one I hope to get more of, even though the circumstances that bring it are far from ideal.
Thank you as always for your encouragement in these words. You, too, are a gift, and I am grateful.
“It was directed at God, but it was also frenzied. It was expectant, but also clingy. It brought me to Him, but also for an immediate answer.” I feel this to my core… I try to pray with confident expectation, waiting on God …. Sometimes though, no matter how hard I try, I simply can’t stay there. I continue to try.
I can relate! Well, and I do wonder about not even praying with that "confident expecation" ... but just letting that prayer go. Gulp. Turning in a different direction from that prayer and letting it die a bit ... to see what God does.
Sara, I’m living in this too. Such heart ache. In this season, grief feels like crawling in a cloud of smoke trusting God to lead through the fire to safety.
❤️🙏🏼
Oh, my. And yes. And amen.
God is doing a similar work in me through difficult circumstances. When I pop off, "Let's just trust and see where He leads," or "I don't know how, but it's gonna be ok," it's so counter to my human flesh. I am always able to see the bad and expect the worst. Yet, here, now, even when I can still kind of envision how awful it might be, I also see Him, with us, in it, and there's peace.
It's a gift I can't even describe as well as one I hope to get more of, even though the circumstances that bring it are far from ideal.
Thank you as always for your encouragement in these words. You, too, are a gift, and I am grateful.
I love reading comments like yours … feels like gaining strength from seeing Him in similar ways in others ❤️