When one season of waiting for deliverance rolls into another without relief.
When, even though you believed the best, the diagnosis is dismal.
When you've been rejected for something - or by someone - again.
Heartache on this earth is real. It's raw, with jagged edges that cut. It's often ugly and wildly unpredictable. It's not tied up with a neat little bow as in a work of fiction.
And sometimes, it's the last story we'll be a part of on this side of eternity.
Sometimes God's answer to our prayers is, simply, no.
Many of us demand explanations. Why, Lord?
Instead of asking why, try asking him what can I learn?
Sometimes God doesn't change our situation because he's more concerned with the condition of our heart than with our circumstances. If it's going to shape us to be more like Jesus, you can be assured he'll likely allow it into your life.
Sometimes he needs us to completely abandon any semblance of control to which we're clinging.
And sometimes, he simply needs us to know that this earth is not our home.
We yearn to be fulfilled by the things of this world, while it just wasn't designed to be so.
He is the answer. The only answer.
Don't throw in the towel yet. Continue to lean into him.
If the only answer you're getting is no, it's for a good reason. Perhaps it's simply, not yet.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though inwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day." - 2 Corinthians 4:16
"But he said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness." - 2 Corinthians 12:9
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