Blessings

We pray for blessings

We pray for peace

Comfort for family, protection while we sleep

We pray for healing, for prosperity

We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering

All the while, You hear each spoken need

Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom

Your voice to hear

And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near

We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love

As if every promise from Your Word is not enough

All the while, You hear each desperate plea

And long that we have faith to believe

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

What if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us

When darkness seems to win

We know that pain reminds this heart

That this is not, this is not our home

It's not our home

'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops

What if Your healing comes through tears

And what if a thousand sleepless nights

Are what it takes to know You're near

What if my greatest disappointments

Or the achings of this life

Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy

And what if trials of this life

The rain, the storms, the hardest nights

Are Your mercies in disguise

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 Mmm. Isn't that the truth. The last few lines are words that have been going through my head this morning as I have been seeking the Lord for an answer to a trial. ' The achings of this life is a revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy. ' That resounds within me so strongly because that is exactly what I have felt God telling me throughout the last few weeks. No matter what longings, what trials, what heartaches I have, always lean on Him and serve Him with all my heart. If I serve Him with all my heart, soul, and mind without reservation or limitation, all things will become clear and beautiful in His time. Waiting on Him is the most important thing a follower of Christ can do. You cannot rush God, so why be in a hurry? I honestly don't even feel anxious hardly at all this time. Which is good, because He doesn't want us to be anxious. I only have a deep yearning for truth and answers. I know that every trial and test is for reason. I don't know the purpose right now - I may never know the purpose -, but knowing that there is a definite purpose and that it was scripted to happen before my life ever began gives me such a comfort and rest that only God can bring. It truly is His mercy. Why? Because without trials, we would not become the people He wants us to. Hardships refine us, just as the constant buffering of the waves make a sharp rock into a smooth one that is much more desirable. Hold strong. God is behind, before, beside, and inside each one of His own.