I started to write a very different blog this morning. This hasn't been the best of weeks and I wanted to complain about it. Some people that I really care about are having some huge problems, life at the Fraley house has been in a bit of turmoil, and a huge project I was working on got deleted when the computer got unplugged. I was feeling down and wanted to vent. Instead, God has decided to show His unmerited grace on this whiner once again.
All the circumstances that have been weighing me down have been altered in some way or the other in the past day. I have been witness to amazing generosity of favor poured out on situations that seemed hopeless, I have experienced the abiding presence of God's Spirit despite the difficulties we have been facing, and have even seen His miraculous hand in my life. What seemed like it could only be bad, God has been using to benefit me.
And don't get me wrong! I don't want to sound overly spiritual here! I've done nothing to deserve any grace this week. I've been mopey and grumpy. I've complained very loudly. Yesterday, I gave up on the day around 8 pm and went to bed with the covers, literally, over my head. That's infantile at best. I didn't pray. I didn't seek answers in the Bible. I didn't apply what I know about Him to my life. Nothing! So there is no reason for Him to be kind to me, to show me any favor whatsoever. Except...
He loves me. That is the only conclusion to draw. Times like this have a spectacular way of demonstrated how much God cares about me. When I experience His goodness without reason, I reminded about how much He loves me! And that supersedes both the troubles I had to begin with and the solutions He offered afterward. All those things seem to pale in the light that, today... I know I am loved by the Living God.
I hope my experience is a reminder to you as well. Despite hardship, He will be faithful. And in the midst of that, I pray that you will feel loved. Makes it more than worthwhile!
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