Psalm 30:8-12
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Version (ESV)
8 To you, O Lord,
I cry,
and (A)to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,[a]
if I go down to the pit?[b]
Will (B)the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 (C)Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
and (A)to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,[a]
if I go down to the pit?[b]
Will (B)the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 (C)Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into (D)dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my (E)glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
12 that my (E)glory may sing your praise and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
As I read this passage and write
this blog I am in distress. Oh it is
nothing life threatening but a part of me has been yanked out of my being. Twenty years of hard work, has gone down the
drain. All my hopes and dreams have
vanished from me and I don’t understand why.
People ask what my goals are and the goals I had for myself have been
stripped away and I don’t understand why. It is hard to try to figure it all
out. Today as I write this I am still in
mourning, not dancing. I am still in
sackcloth not in clothes of gladness.
But if I have learned anything over the past two years it is this, God
is in control. As I struggle I need to
keep in mind that ultimately all that really matters is that Christ died and
rose again for my sins. There is more to
life than a career. There is more to
life than retirement. I must cling to
the promise that there is a hope and a future for me. A future that is greater than anything that
can be found in this world.
Seeking Him with all my heart,
Sheila
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