“I do not know what direction He will take our family in. But this I know: I can trust wherever He leads. And I can know that He does use everything—even job loss, even the hard things of life. In the end we will find Him faithful. In the end we will find Him true. In the end we will see what He has done and marvel at His ability to use everything and waste nothing.
Even this.“
-Marybeth Whalen
The above quotation is from a forwarded inspirational email I received today from one of my dearest friends. The entire message spoke life into my heart, as I continue to grasp at my faith during this trying time.
He who promised is faithful… I hung onto that verse in Africa, and I cling to it today.
I don’t know what tomorrow will bring. I don’t know where we are headed in life. But I do know that right now, in this moment, I trust my God with everything inside me. I have peace.
Thank you, Jesus.
8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. […]16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Cor. 4:8, 9, 16-18
Praying for you, and that your comfort through these (seemingly) never-ending trials is that God is using them for an “eternal glory that outweighs them all”!!!